On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 10:23:06 -0700 Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> said:
> Howdy again, > > I'm trying to setup a new thinkpad (P73) which in my case is finally an > upgrade to systemd. > I copied over my .e directory from my old laptop so that I don't lose > all my settings, especially my carefully set window placements > > 1) was there a better/safer way to do this? just copying over ~/.e is the right way. :) > 2) When I start E, it complains that I'm not running acpid, which I > don't think I should since systemd took over, right? no. you need it. e uses acpid for: 1. lid open/close events 2. battery change events (battery plug/remove) 3. ac adapter plug/unplug events 4. acpi buttons if they still happen (power, reset etc.) e explicitlyu wants the events for these to do things like update bettery status or screen setups or suspend or whatever it is configured to do. > 3) I get a complaint that I have 2 systrays when I'm not running > stalonetray anymore and I never got the E systray working as nothing > goes in it (hence stalonetray). is it e's dialog complaining? you may have 2 shelves with a systray in both? it only allows one to exist. > Now I seem to have 2 systrays, but see nothing, not even sure where the > systray(s) is/are hiding in my shelf check the shelf content settings - is a systray enabled for more than one shelf? > I think the problem was that I had a gadget systray and a shelf systray > They are both invisible and seem to do nothing, so I removed the gadget > systray (gadgets seem a bit weird/misbehaving for now, but I don't need > them). what is a gadget systray? systray presents a gadget for gadcon (gadget controller) to request/position etc. ... ? gadcons can be in shelves - they can also be placed on the desktop... you could also have a systray on the desktop gadcon... ? > 4) now that I have systemd instead of acpid, Fn-F5/F6 used to adjust > brightness, now they don't. E key bindings don't allow Fn keys, do they? > How am I supposed to get missing Fn bindings, through systemd custom > configuration, or E? acpid... :) also you may find that some acpibuttons moved to be x key presses so you may have to add keybindings for them. > 5) alt+ middle button resize does not work, it changes virtual desktops > instead (not a good ugprade). I went to mouse binding settings, middle + > alt, and moved it back to window::actions resize and that does not work. > I still get virtual desktop scrolls when I move the mouse with alt > middle click in a window context. alt+scroll wheel == switch desktops in default bindings. it sounds like you are not pressing middle mouse but scrolling the wheel instead. if the button is both a wheel and a button it could be you are producing both or maybe it isn't producing a middle button press at all? you can use xev to try and see what happens when you press middle button on its window. also just trying to add a binding for it too and see what input e sees. > 5.5) worse: if I carefully move the mouse to the bottom right corner of > a window, I cannot resize it. I can resize using window, resize with > keyboard in the menu bar though what have you done? do you have weird modifier behavior on this box where some modifier is always pressed? > 6) when I tried cinamon, I got lots of apps in the tray, from wicd, to > network-manager, even google-chrome showed me an icon for a tab playing > music with play/pause, and more. > I have no idea if it's using x-embed or what, just that it works. > With E, I get nothing in my systray, never mind that I seem to have 2 > and I don't know where they are. > This is really what I miss the most with E, and doesn't work in my older > E either (0.21.11-1), I'm missing all those nice systray-like icons and > status. again as per a previous mail - e from git has this fixed. as 0.24 is around the corner after this elf 1.24 release ... don't expect any fixes for 0.23, so try efl + e from git and report issues BEFORE a release so it's working in the release. :) compiling from git is the exact same method as from a tarball. zero difference. > Any ideas what I can/should do? > > Thanks, > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP > 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
