On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 14:29:13 Massimo Maiurana wrote:
> Mick ha scritto il 19/03/2017 alle 13:23:
> > On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 09:44:23 Massimo Maiurana wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I finally bought a brand new laptop :)
> >>
> >> Of course I installed E, building from source as I've always did but I
> >> have two problems to solve.
> >>
> >> The first is regarding acpi events: closing lid the laptop should
> >> suspend, and indeed it is what happens under gnome (there also lid open
> >> resumes it) but does not happen under E. Acpid is not installed so
> >> probably that's what I need, but I wonder why it works in gnome.
> >
> > I don't run gnome, but from a more generic perspective you will need to
> > install acpid and make sure it is running as a service when you boot up.
> > Closing the lid then generates an event captured by acpid which by default
> > will suspend to ram. Check what you have at Settings > Settings Panel >
> > Input>
> >> ACPI Bindings > Lid Closed. I have set mine to 'Suspend Intelligently'
> >> and it works as advertised.
>
> Hmh, well, i'm not sure acpid is required for this to work. I think
> acpid is for managing acpi events, not for exposing them, or lid close
> wouldn't work even under other environments. I'll try installing it and
> see if it solves the problem.
acpid is required to capture the event and run a script to suspend the OS. On
my system the script is within /etc/acpi/default.sh. If acpid daemon is not
running then what will run the suspend command?
> >> The second is about icons: Applications menu is full populated with all
> >> applications, including my own in ~/.local/share/applications, but only
> >> 3 of them have an icon associated (a custom of mine, gnome-font-viewer
> >> and the E filemanager). Also, much more annoying, evry doesn't list
> >> desktop applications in the list that appears when I start typing, only
> >> executables and directories are listed.
> >
> > Settings > Settings Panel > Menu Settings > Applications, should give you
> > some options. One of these ought to make all/most application icons to
> > show up. Also check Settings > Settings Panel > Menu Settings >
> > Miscellaneous, does not have 'Disable icons in menus' selected.
>
> I DO have applications in menu, my problem is not that. What I miss is
> icons for applications, but for that three applications mentioned above
> that have an icon in their own menu entry. If "disable icons" was
> checked I wouldn't have any icon neither for those three ;)
I beg your pardon, I meant to say look in Settings > Settings Panel > Look >
Application Theme, and choose a theme that makes most of your apps to display
with icons.
--
Regards,
Mick
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