On 05/14/2016 05:34 AM, Roy W. Reese wrote:
> El 2016-05-13 17:49, Peter Koellner escribió:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have been running enlightenment on my desktop for about two years
>> now, on a debain 8 64bit laptop with nvidia graphics card.
>> The current version is quite recent, and the situation is as follows:
>>
>> - entrance as display manager does not really work very well, and
>> there have been no updates for quite some time now. When leaving the
>> session to shutdown, the system hangs for a minute or two. I made an
>> basic init script adopting the xdm one, but there must be something
>> wrong, only I have no idea what.
>>
>> - econnman does not work. The application does not start from the menu
>> and seems to crash right on start. Last year I temporarily resolved
>> the bleak network management situation by normally connecting via
>> ethernet cable and struggling with nmcli if I really must use a WLAN.
>>
>> - firefox(iceweasel) shows more or less heavy artifacts, depending on
>> the currently installed efl/enlightenment version. For some time now,
>> more or less large rectangles of the content frequently go flickering
>> heavily, as if some part of the display gets constantly resized.
>>
>> - I am using IntelliJ IDEA for development. With the latest version, I
>> get strange artefacts like little to dialog-box sized rectangles
>> showing a copy from the Idea window floating as overlays over the top
>> window which will not go away until Idea is restarted - but they move
>> with the idea window. They must be somehow connected to diverse
>> tooltips and dialogs popping up but failing to close properly,
>> especially when switching foreground and background window.
>>
>> I am not sure how to proceed from here. I would like to continue using
>> enlightenment, but I don't really see how I could help with fixing
>> those problems. I have switched to fluxbox for now to see if the
>> artifacts
>> show up with a different setup, and until now firefox just shows a bit
>> of
>> wobble when scrolling, and Idea behaves until now. So chances are high
>> that
>> it is really enlightenment to blame.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I'm not sure about all of the issues, but is your version of python-efl
> up to date (should be 1.17 as well)? I experienced a problem with
> econnman -- and have to confess mistakenly filing a bug report against
> econnman until someone else discovered the problem was the failure to
> have an up-to-date python-efl in our (non-Debian) repositories.
>
> As far as shutdown, I assume that you have narrowed the culprit down to
> entrance. Like you I have been using entrance for about two years, but
> without problems. I have, however, been getting infrequent delays in
> shutdown as a result of the CUPS scheduler not closing properly -- and
> it has a 1'30" timeout!
>
The delay in shutdown of cups is almost certainly not related to cups,
its probably the timeout thats been set in your init system.
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