snip
xfce-4.6 is running here on a couple of machines, with none of those
problems. Those actually sound more like xorg problems.
I don't think it's XORG for a couple of reasons:
* when I first updated xfce, it didn't update xorg, and it was all
working fine under xfce4 4.4
* problems
Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For
example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (# firefox).
Once you get the hang of its keybindings, which are vi-like, it's fun and
easy. It's also compatible with aterm, which will give you
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6:
* 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking
computer
* 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4)
* 0% chance of shutting down successfully if
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6:
* 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking
computer
* 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4)
* 0% chance of
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote:
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For
example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (#
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6:
* 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking
computer
* 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4)
Got X? You already got one ;-)
http://81.174.174.115/twm/twmrc.htm
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Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote:
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
The XFCE upgrade went smoothly for me, apart from missing icons,
although I don't use it all that much so I may have missed something.
At
Keith Seyffarth said the following on 2009-03-16 02:38:
Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first. There's a
OK. I'll have to think about that. It is mostly working now, having
added an xrandr line to the .xinitrc file to fix the resolution.
What line was that?
xrandr
That -k option to make is unnecessary and possibly bad. Stop using it
for now.
Well, it doesn't really sound like it is *good*, but I was just trying
to get X to install again. Thanks for the warning, though.
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
make clean
OK, it cleans everything
make
xorg-drivers requires the drivers it has been configured to depend on, which
does not necessarily include xf86-video-via.
Go to the xorg-drivers port and do a 'make config' to change which drivers
it will depend on.
This did work to get XORG to install. Now I'm trying to get XFCE
installed
Well, I finally got XORG to install again, and then installed XFCE
4.6. Still no menus, and huge screen resolution. However,
Ctl-Alt-[Keypad Minus] will zoom in on part of the desktop area,
making text at least readable on screen.
Any other suggestions on getting XFCE to have its menu again? Or
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
Well, I finally got XORG to install again, and then installed XFCE
4.6. Still no menus, and huge screen resolution. However,
Ctl-Alt-[Keypad Minus] will zoom in on part of the desktop area,
making text at least readable on screen.
Any other suggestions on getting XFCE
You could try hitting ALT+F2 and typing xfce4-settings-manager or
xfce4-settings-editor to run these.
I was able to set some things this way, but some settings don't take
(such as screen resolution).
also, changing the theme to Tango didn't fix the missing icons (yes,
icons-tango-0.8.1_1 and
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
make config-recursive
(choose configuration for everything)
Should there have been some kind of user interaction here? A series of
questions? A screen with boxes to X for different options? What I got
was:
# make
Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first. There's a
OK. I'll have to think about that. It is mostly working now, having
added an xrandr line to the .xinitrc file to fix the resolution.
snip
Are you running FreeBSD 6.0? I don't know if xorg-7.4 will work or even
build with
I haven't been folowing this discussion but have you tried to delete the
.config folder in your user's home and start xfce without it? that forces
it to redo the config from scratch.
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Keith Seyffarth said the following on 2009-03-16 02:38:
Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first. There's a
OK. I'll have to think about that. It is mostly working now, having
added an xrandr line to the .xinitrc file to fix the resolution.
What line was that?
I haven't been folowing this discussion but have you tried to delete the
.config folder in your user's home and start xfce without it? that forces
it to redo the config from scratch.
I didn't actually try that, but at one point I did create a new user
and that user has the same issues.
Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in
7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add
Option AllowEmptyInput Off statement as last line in ServerLayout
section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf will
build you
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in
7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add
Option AllowEmptyInput Off statement as last line in ServerLayout
section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf
As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports
and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails
then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and
the xorg and xfce packages.
Does anyone have an option other than blowing
As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports
and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails
then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and
the xorg and xfce packages.
It looks like this was a step in the WRONG
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:43:53 -0600 (MDT), Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote:
Anyone have another suggestion? At this point, I need to get X
installed so I can even consider a window manager.
What about using pkg_add for X and the other ports it depends
on? Check if the binary packages are new
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 03:43:53PM -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports
and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails
then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and
the
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports
and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails
then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and
the xorg and xfce packages.
It
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
On freebsd 6.0, I upgraded XFCE from 4.4 to 4.6 last night.
When I started X this morning, and went to follow these instructions
from the UPDATING file:
Make sure to switch as well to the Tango theme. To do this just open
the Settings Manager and select Appearance.
Manolis,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Did you follow the rest of the instructions for xfce 4.6 in UPDATING?
There are a few ports to deinstall, preferably before upgrading. A
little problem with that: after having the ports tree updated I could
not simply make deinstall them, as the old port
The install for 4.6.0 is too complicated (hence error-prone).
I'm sticking with my current version of xfce, which I like a lot.
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The install for 4.6.0 is too complicated (hence error-prone).
I'm sticking with my current version of xfce, which I like a lot.
That may well have been a better choice at this point...
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longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I
preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports
I wasn't able to find pkg_rmleaves, so I tried pkg_delete on all the
related packages I could find.
(including the libs, mousepad, Thunar and a
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
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longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I
preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports
I wasn't able to find pkg_rmleaves, so I tried pkg_delete on all the
related packages I could find.
Well,
snip
Please make sure these ports are installed:
x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine
installed as:
gtk-xfce-engine-2.6.0 An XFCE engine for GTK 2.0
x11-themes/icons-tango-extras
installed as:
icons-tango-extras-0.1.0_1 A extra set of icons from the Tango project
snip
I am afraid I can do both
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
New user gets a completely different interface. XFCE and components
don't seem to launch, nor do they seem to be available. Not only is
there no menu, there's no panel from which to launch the menu, and the
panel won't start from the command line.
Well, this
snip
Well, this leads me to believe you don't have an .xinitrc file in the
new user's home directory
Create an ~/.xinitrc with
exec startxfce4
OK, did that.
as the only content and try again.
The panel is there (and displayed icons on the desktop,
weird). However, the menu doesn't
I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it
exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R
This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something
got installed that wasn't previously.
Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the problems.
The XFCE menu still
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it
exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R
This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something
got installed that wasn't previously.
Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the
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