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SProkofiev n00b
Joined: 23 Apr 2012 Posts: 10
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:08 am Post subject: Not sure what to call the problem |
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Sorry to post this question, but I have no idea how to eliminate it and I've not yet found anyone, who
seems to experience it.
I switched from KDE to XFCE quite sometime ago. I like KDE, but kmail stopped working long ago and then this akonadi et al came in and it was time to give up.
XFCE has an intermittent problem and I can not figure how to correct it.
What happens is that during normal use menus begin to give me errors. They stop working. I often F2 and that stops working, that is it will not come up to allow me to enter a command.
After awhile the menus may begin to allow applications to be called again, but this unpredictable.
Again, when I call a menu, the menu item comes up, but will not call the application. I always have a terminal up, but entering the command without correcting the problem
is frustrating. BTW, I do use the command line often, but I tend to use a combination.
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The Doctor Moderator
Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:52 am Post subject: |
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I recommend revdep-rebuild in the absence of logs or errors. (hint: we need those. We are not psychic. /var/logs/messages may hold clues. I don't know where else this would be logged.)
As for KDE, here is my two cents that you are, of course, more than free to ignore: Thunderbird solves the kmail problem and USE="-semantic-desktop" drives a stake through the akonadi et al mess.
EDIT: I would call your problem "intermittent failure of XFCE menu" _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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SProkofiev n00b
Joined: 23 Apr 2012 Posts: 10
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:11 am Post subject: "intermittent failure of XFCE menu" |
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Thanks very much for the response. Sorry for no log info as I'm unsure there is any. I do like the "stake through the akonadi et al mess"
suggestion!! I hoped there was some way to do that, buy had never seen any such solution. I'm off for the Christmas holiday
so that will me one of my projects!
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The Doctor Moderator
Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:50 am Post subject: Re: "intermittent failure of XFCE menu" |
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SProkofiev wrote: | Thanks very much for the response. Sorry for no log info as I'm unsure there is any. I do like the "stake through the akonadi et al mess"
suggestion!! I hoped there was some way to do that, buy had never seen any such solution. |
Oh it is just a matter of setting the right use flag. semantic-desktop enables the three, akonadi, nepomuk, and Strigi. You just need to disable the use flag (and employ package.mask if you are paranoid) and emerge -uND world && emerge -ac. The only features of KDE that will not work are the KDE PIM stuff like kmail, but if you already dropped that, then you should be all set.
EDIT: The above definitely takes the bite out of the three and removes one (nepomuk) but I don't know if actually removes the other two. I can't actually check that now since my desktop is in my apartment and my laptop runs Arch, so I don't have access to a Gentoo system at the moment. Even if it does not remove them, it does make the desktop feel like a new one. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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