hi all

i've been looking for an alternative desktop/window manager to replace
gnome. so far the best i found is xfce. kde i don't like for
phylosophical reasons (though it's what i use now

one problem that i think is slackware specific (or possibly
installation-specific) is that when i start xfce, i gen no desktop
picture/gradient and i cannot right click on the desktop.

xfdesktop exists and if i run it, my desktop picture comes up, while i
get lots of
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
in the terminal

xfdesktop is supposed to be started in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce but
it doesn't. i tried creating my own .xinitrc and still nothing changes.

i then tried to install xfce by myself using their .bin istaller and
nothing changes.

has anyone heard of such a problem? can you suggest something else to try?

please help

mig21

p.s. i use slackware 10.1 with no major updates (dropline, kde, etc)

>
> one problem that i think is slackware specific (or possibly
> installation-specific) is that when i start xfce, i gen no desktop
> picture/gradient and i cannot right click on the desktop.
>

Wise choice this xfce. Try typing xfce-session on the command line, see
what happens.

JB

danube a écrit :
>>one problem that i think is slackware specific (or possibly
>>installation-specific) is that when i start xfce, i gen no desktop
>>picture/gradient and i cannot right click on the desktop.
>>
>
>
> Wise choice this xfce. Try typing xfce-session on the command line, see
> what happens.
>
> JB
if i type xfce4-session, i get this:
xfce4-session: Another session manager is already runnin

unless i do it in a tty, then i get a gtk screen missing error

but while playing with this i noticed that root's desktop works just
fine. any idea what permissions i should be looking at?

On 2005-04-02, Mig21 <no@whe.re> wrote:
> danube a écrit :
>>>one problem that i think is slackware specific (or possibly
>>>installation-specific) is that when i start xfce, i gen no desktop
>>>picture/gradient and i cannot right click on the desktop.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Wise choice this xfce. Try typing xfce-session on the command line, see
>> what happens.
>>
>> JB
> if i type xfce4-session, i get this:
> xfce4-session: Another session manager is already runnin
>
> unless i do it in a tty, then i get a gtk screen missing error
>
> but while playing with this i noticed that root's desktop works just
> fine. any idea what permissions i should be looking at?

Try startxfce4

Nic

Nic a écrit :
> On 2005-04-02, Mig21 <no@whe.re> wrote:
>
> Try startxfce4
>
> Nic

still no desktop.

tried it on another machine nad it works. maybe if i don't get it
working in the next few days i'll reinstall. would rather not fix it the
windows way though

Mig21 <no@whe.re> wrote:
> Nic a ?crit :
>> On 2005-04-02, Mig21 <no@whe.re> wrote:
>>
>> Try startxfce4
>>
>> Nic
>
> still no desktop.
>
> tried it on another machine nad it works. maybe if i don't get it
> working in the next few days i'll reinstall. would rather not fix it the
> windows way though

Did you use xwmconfig to change window managers? (Then startx
from the command line ... )

> Did you use xwmconfig to change window managers? (Then startx
> from the command line ... )

yeah. no.

it didn't work

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 03:30:30 -0400, Mig21 wrote:

>> Did you use xwmconfig to change window managers? (Then startx
>> from the command line ... )
>
> yeah. no.
>
> it didn't work

What is the output of the terminal that the startx is run in? (disregard
the "attempt to put segment in horiz list" warnings - they're a problem in
one of the svg libraries (librsvg?) and are nonfatal.

Ori Bernstein a écrit :
> What is the output of the terminal that the startx is run in? (disregard
> the "attempt to put segment in horiz list" warnings - they're a problem in
> one of the svg libraries (librsvg?) and are nonfatal.

doesn't look very interesting:


X Window System Version 6.8.1
Release Date: 17 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.29 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux 2.6.10 #1 Sat Jan 22 12:49:12 PST 2005 i686
Build Date: 23 January 2005
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 3 19:33:31 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from list!
Agent pid 6596
which: no dbus-launch in
(/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.)
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1152 hbeg: 1216 hend: 1344 httl: 1600
vdsp: 864 vbeg: 865 vend: 868 vttl: 900 flags: 5
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1152 hbeg: 1216 hend: 1344 httl: 1600
vdsp: 864 vbeg: 865 vend: 868 vttl: 900 flags: 5
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1152 hbeg: 1216 hend: 1344 httl: 1600
vdsp: 864 vbeg: 865 vend: 868 vttl: 900 flags: 5

(xftaskbar4:6607): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: tray icon has requested a
size of (1 x 1), resizing to (24 x 24)
** Message: xfce4-panel: Exit
Agent pid 6596 killed
xscreensaver: 19:34:28: -1: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_WM_STATE"
received
xscreensaver: 19:34:28: -1: for window 0x60002e ((null) / (null))
xscreensaver: 19:34:28: SIGHUP received: restarting...
xscreensaver: 19:34:28: initial effective uid/gid was user/shadow (1000/43)
xscreensaver: 19:34:28: running as user/users (1000/100)


waiting for X server to shut down The application 'xfce-mcs-manager'
lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 3 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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Mig21 wrote:
| one problem that i think is slackware specific (or possibly
| installation-specific) is that when i start xfce, i gen no desktop
| picture/gradient and i cannot right click on the desktop.
|
| xfdesktop exists and if i run it, my desktop picture comes up, while i
| get lots of
| *** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
| in the terminal

Couple of things you might want to try:

1. mv .xfce .xfce.bck && mv .xfce4 .xfce4.bck && startx

2. Start X, then in a terminal run xfdesktop. Set xfce to save session
on logout. Logout. Restart X.





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