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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:10 pm    Post subject: Where to file a bug: XFCE non-responsive after starting VLC Reply with quote

I'm running XFCE .
Code:
[I] xfce-base/xfce4-session
     Available versions:  4.10.0 {{consolekit debug gnome-keyring policykit udev +xscreensaver}}
     Installed versions:  4.10.0(01:12:47 AM 08/05/2012)(consolekit policykit udev xscreensaver -debug -gnome-keyring)
     Homepage:            http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/start
     Description:         A session m


I successfully installed VLC:
Code:
 Installed versions:  2.0.3(10:22:49 PM 01/23/2013)(X a52 aac alsa avcodec avformat cdda dbus dts dvbpsi dvd elibc_glibc encode ffmpeg flac gcrypt libnotify mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses ogg opengl png postproc sdl sse svg swscale theora truetype udev vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -aalib -altivec -atmo -audioqueue -avahi -bidi -bluray -cddb -dc1394 -debug -dirac -direct2d -directfb -directx -dshow -dvb -dxva2 -egl -fbosd -fluidsynth -fontconfig -gme -gnome -gnutls -growl -httpd -ieee1394 -ios-vout -jack -kate -kde -libass -libcaca -libproxy -libsamplerate -libtar -libtiger -linsys -lirc -live -lua -macosx -macosx-audio -macosx-dialog-provider -macosx-eyetv -macosx-qtkit -macosx-quartztext -macosx-vout -matroska -media-library -modplug -mtp -musepack -neon -omxil -optimisememory -oss -portaudio -projectm -pulseaudio -pvr -qt4 -rtsp -run-as-root -samba -schroedinger -sdl-image -shine -shout -sid -skins -speex -sqlite -switcher -taglib -twolame -upnp -v4l -vaapi -vcdx -vlm -waveout -win32codecs -wingdi -wma-fixed -xosd -zvbi)
     Homepage:            http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
     Description:         VLC media player - Video player and streamer


When I try to launch VLC, my desktop becomes nonresponsive as follows: I can move my mouse, but click events are not causing anything to happen. I'm basically frozen out.

I do have a shell via ssh from another computer.

Questions:

1) where should I log a bug: XFCE or VLC? Seems to me XFCE ought to handle problems or have a way to deal with applications that cause it's mouse clicks to be non-responsive.

2) what's the best way to shut down running instance of XFCE from another shell? There are several XFCE related processes, I'm not sure which will do the job.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If VLC is the only program that causes this issue, you want to file a bug related to VLC - and probably upstream, at that.

To force XFCE to restart from another VT, just do /etc/init.d/xdm restart as root.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:02 am    Post subject: qt4 Reply with quote

Looking at the date of the posts; the problem is probably already solved but nevertheless.
I ran in the same problem with xfce4 and vlc; trying to find some solution to it by googling etc...
Couldn't find anything in bugs. At last i tried nvlc in a terminal and this worked. So nothing seemed to be wrong with vlc.
Then I remembered something about rvlc, qvlc somewhere mentioned. Could my problem have something to do with
trying to start vlc from trying to start it from the menu; and something there isn't configured wright. freedesktop-stuff perhaps.
But wait; what if the gui wich vlc wants to use when started from the start-menu; simply isn't there. I've installed vlc; saw it in
the start-menu and presumed everything was well. xfce4 is based on gtk+; does vlc have a gtk-gui?
vlc comes with all kind of interfaces but I didn't remember a gtk one, and after some searching I couldn't find one.
There is however qvlc, probably a qt4-gui; and my qt4 USE-flag isn't set in make.conf, and i would like to keep it that way.
So lets set qt4 only for the package vlc; I use
euse -E qt4 -p media-video/vlc
You can get euse by emerge gentoolkit.
Then re-emerge vlc; and now it works out of the start-menu without freezing the xfce4, it tried before to load a gui wich wasn't
there.
Hope this helps anyone running in the same problem
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

audiodef wrote:
If VLC is the only program that causes this issue, you want to file a bug related to VLC - and probably upstream, at that.

To force XFCE to restart from another VT, just do /etc/init.d/xdm restart as root.


Interesting, I'm back at the problem again and your solution, which worked for me previously (on a different system), fails this time:
Quote:
themis ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm restart
ERROR: Your XDM value is invalid.
No xdm executable could be found on your system.
ERROR: Please set your DISPLAYMANAGER variable in /etc/conf.d/xdm,
or install x11-apps/xdm package [ !! ]
* Setting up xdm ...
* start-stop-daemon: /usr/bin/xdm does not exist
* ERROR: could not start the Display Manager [ ok ]
themis ~ # eix xdm

I'm installing x11-apps/xdm now as I write this. I thought it unusual that I could have XFCE running without xdm, I guess a different display manager program is afoot.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="jlpoole"]
audiodef wrote:
... I guess a different display manager program is afoot.


Looks like my windows manager is xfwm4

I'm not seeing anything of /etc/init.d/xfwm which I can "restart", so then the question becomes: how do I kill by current session of XFCE?
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