Xfce4 Finetuning

[wowo123]

Followed your footsteps and everything worked out fine on my c3200 with beta3. I have xfce4 and rox and my keymap works properly...BUT
Fn+3 /Fn+4 doesn't work for backlight. In startxfce4 I found  -kb in the defaultserverargs line, so what's wrong? Any hint? Can anyone post his working xinitrc.xfce? Thanks in advance.

[takuan]

Hey Chero,
Thanks for all the work making the packages for xfce!
Its definately my favorite X manager and use it for everything..
I was just wondering though if you could make a wiki for the installation/current bugs/updates/etc of xfce because 18 pages of forums is a little too much to read for most people
Itd be nice if we could organize things like this into concise wiki's.
I have something in mind like the Gentoo Wikis. great stuff.

anyways, just a suggestion. if youre too busy, dont worry about it

[uMP2k]

Followed your footsteps and everything worked out fine on my c3200 with beta3. I have xfce4 and rox and my keymap works properly...BUT
Fn+3 /Fn+4 doesn't work for backlight. In startxfce4 I found  -kb in the defaultserverargs line, so what's wrong? Any hint? Can anyone post his working xinitrc.xfce? Thanks in advance.
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You might want to check out [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21361] THIS [/url] thead for some more info on this topic.  

Basically, I had the same question as you, and although I managed to map the fn keys to work for backlighting etc, the setting did not stick through a restart of xfce.

I have ended up compromising and mapping them to alt=3 and alt+4.

[coklat]

I installed XFCE 4.4 beta2. The toolbar/menu icons in applications are missing, replaced by the square with cross mark in it when I tried to change the user interface theme to xfce-dusk. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new to Linux and just flashed my C1000 with pdaXrom

[webslngr]

I installed XFCE 4.4 beta2. The toolbar/menu icons in applications are missing, replaced by the square with cross mark in it when I tried to change the user interface theme to xfce-dusk. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new to Linux and just flashed my C1000 with pdaXrom
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You might want to make sure the hicolor ipk is installed. it can be found in  [a href=\"http://users.telenet.be/zaurususer/ipkgs/experimental/xfce4-4.4-beta2/hicolor_0.0.1_armv5tel.ipk]Chero's ipks[/url]

The xfce-dusk theme works on my 3100 running r121

One of the other fun things about xfce (and all related ipks) is that it REALLY likes living in / instead of another destination.

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# ipkg -d root install
Hope that helps.

--webslngr

[Capn_Fish]

What packages do I need to install to run the the XFCE beta 2?

Also, can I use the old plugins with the beta 2 version of XFCE? I mostly want the taskbar plugin.

If this has already been asked, sorry to ask again, but 18 pages is a lot!  

Thanks.

[webslngr]

What packages do I need to install to run the the XFCE beta 2?

Also, can I use the old plugins with the beta 2 version of XFCE? I mostly want the taskbar plugin.

If this has already been asked, sorry to ask again, but 18 pages is a lot!  

Thanks.
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The panel plugins from 4.2 and before do not work the the newest (4.3 / 4.4beta) panel.

I installed the (as chero points out) "experimental" version this way:

download:
Terminal_0.2.5.r20943_armv5tel.ipk
libexo_0.3.1.6.beta1_armv5tel.ipk
popt_1.6.4_armv5tel.ipk
startxfce4
thunar_0.3.0.beta1_armv5tel.ipk
xinitrc.xfce
from [a href=\"http://users.telenet.be/zaurususer/ipkgs/experimental/]HERE[/url]
use:

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# ipkg -force-depends -d root install download everything from HERE
install everything excluding the plugins you don't want.

I used a for loop to do the work:

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# for i in `ls -1 *.ipk`; do ipkg -force-depends -d root install $i; doneCopy the xinitrc.xfce to your ~. Because I am running R121 (I think this is the reason) , I had to hack the xinit.xfce a little. Here is a section of mine:

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MODEL=`cat /proc/deviceinfo/product`
MODEL=SL-3100
echo 'MODEL:'$MODEL
case "$MODEL" in
    SL-C860|SL-C760|SL-C750|SL-7500|SL-C700)
        test -f /etc/X11/kb/corgi.xmodmap && xmodmap /etc/X11/kb/corgi.xmodmap
       ;;
    SL-6000)
        test -f /etc/X11/kb/tosa.xmodmap && xmodmap /etc/X11/kb/tosa.xmodmap
       ;;
    SL-C1000|SL-C3000|SL-C3100)
        test -f /etc/X11/kb/Akita/xmodmap && xmodmap /etc/X11/kb/Akita/xmodmap
       ;;
    *)
        cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'Sharp-Collie' 2>/dev/null >/dev/null && test -f /etc/X11/kb/collie.xmodmap && xmodmap /etc/X11/kb/collie.xmodmap
       ;;
esacnotice the "MODEL=SL-3100" and related xmodmap lines

I think I even had to make a link from libxfce4util.so.4.0.0 to libxfce4util.so.2

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# ln -s /usr/lib/libxfce4util.so.4.0.0 /usr/lib/libxfce4util.so.2 to get some of the plugins and xfce-related apps to work. You can tell if there are libxfce4util errors on the screen after you quit X

If I think of anything else, I'll edit this post.

Good luck,
--webslngr

[coklat]

I installed XFCE 4.4 beta2. The toolbar/menu icons in applications are missing, replaced by the square with cross mark in it when I tried to change the user interface theme to xfce-dusk. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new to Linux and just flashed my C1000 with pdaXrom
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You might want to make sure the hicolor ipk is installed. it can be found in  [a href=\"http://users.telenet.be/zaurususer/ipkgs/experimental/xfce4-4.4-beta2/hicolor_0.0.1_armv5tel.ipk]Chero's ipks[/url]

The xfce-dusk theme works on my 3100 running r121

One of the other fun things about xfce (and all related ipks) is that it REALLY likes living in / instead of another destination.

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# ipkg -d root install
Hope that helps.

--webslngr
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Thanks for the reply, I tried it and it doesn't work. However, the XFCE works pretty well and I really like it. Losing one theme won't stop me from using it  So... we can actually use XFCE in r121... temptations...  Would you share your experience using XFCE in r121? If it is stable enough, then I really want to try it. I'm using beta3 at the moment.

[scoutme]

Hi Chero, starting xfce-session from inside X works properly, while startxfce4 script doesnt. Any idea?

[Chero]

Hi Chero, starting xfce-session from inside X works properly, while startxfce4 script doesnt. Any idea?
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I guess there is something wrong with the script  

Could you PM me you're startx script ?

Chero.

[webslngr]

Thanks for the reply, I tried it and it doesn't work. However, the XFCE works pretty well and I really like it. Losing one theme won't stop me from using it  So... we can actually use XFCE in r121... temptations...  Would you share your experience using XFCE in r121? If it is stable enough, then I really want to try it. I'm using beta3 at the moment.
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So far it is fine. I haven't had any real problems with it. xfrun4 doesn't seem to be in the package; it throws a lot of errors on the console while running, but nothing serious.

I am in and out of it quite a bit, so I can't comment on the long term stability, but imagine it is fine. it goes in and out of suspends with out too much trouble as well.

--webslngr

[macwiz]

Hi Chero, starting xfce-session from inside X works properly, while startxfce4 script doesnt. Any idea?
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I'm having the same problem with xfce4 on r121. I am using a c860.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Chero]

Hi Chero, starting xfce-session from inside X works properly, while startxfce4 script doesnt. Any idea?
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I'm having the same problem with xfce4 on r121. I am using a c860.

Any help would be appreciated!
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Could you PM me your startx script ?

Chero.

[macwiz]

Sorry Chero but I have managed to drop back to beta 3 and haven't installed xfce4 there yet. If I have problems I'll shout. Thanks for your hard work making the Z more like the laptop it ought to be!

Best Wishes

John

[coklat]

Finally, I flashed my C1000 to r121 and installed xfce4. The main problem with xfce is when I quit the xfce, all of the stuff in the panel are gone (the error is: "unexpectedly removed") and I don't have the logout dialog as well. There were also some messages about segmentation fault in xfce-session. Does it mean that I have to compile xfce using pdaX r121 if I want it to work in r121?