Xfce 4.4

[Spent]

When I first installed xfce 4.4, I could click on an archive in Thunar and it would open the archive in Xarchiver. Some packages have been upgraded since then, now it no longer opens the archives when clicking on then in Thunar.

Anyone have any clues?

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emerge thunar-archive

I wish the maintainers introduce the plugins USE flag for thunar to pull all these in ... (you might want thunar-media-tags and thunar-volman as well).

I already have all those packages, and re-emerging them hasn't helped. It's really irritating that it worked at one point, and now it doesn't. I don't know how I broke it.

[ilm]

I assume you tried revdep-rebuild, or re-emerging thunar????

[Spent]

I assume you tried revdep-rebuild, or re-emerging thunar????

Yes, and I've emerged Thunar with and without the 'plugin' USE flag, also have re-emerged Xarchiver.

[santaclaws]

Hi there,

I upgraded to XFCE 4.4 as SamuliSuominen described:

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[quote="SamuliSuominen"]People, there is no point of pasting package.* lists in this post, it's more annoying than useful.

Because 4.2 packages are not compatible with 4.4 at all, easiest way is to remove 4.2 before installing.

emerge --sync
emerge -av portage-utils
emerge -C `qlist -CI xfce`

After it's been removed, it's time to install 4.4.

emerge --sync
grep xfce /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
grep xfce /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
USE="thunar-vfs dbus plugins hal libnotify" emerge -av xfce4 xfce4-extras

USE flags should be added to make.conf accordingly. And currently xfce4-extras doesn't install all of the plugins, so you can look at the list yourself.

grep xfce /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask[/quote]

But I have a problem with revdep-rebuild:

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revdep-rebuild -pv
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...

Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
  broken /usr/bin/xfdiff4 (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/bin/xffm (requires  libxfce4mcs-client.so.2 libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/bin/xfmime-edit (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/bin/xfprint-manager (requires  libxfce4mcs-client.so.2 libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/libxffmsettings.so (requires  libxfce4mcs-client.so.2 libxfce4mcs-manager.so.2 libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libclipman.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmixer.so (requires  libxfce4mcs-client.so.2 libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libnetload.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libnotes.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libsystemload.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
 done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. 

I tried running revdep-rebuild using

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revdep-rebuild --library libxfce4util.so.*

but the problem does not disappear.

Any suggestions?

[96140]

FIrst, unmerge xffm (you don't need it now that you have thunar; unless you actually use xffm). That cuts down on the number of packages to be rebuilt.

Second, did you bother to actually look at the output of revdep-rebuild? Look at all those different library names that need fixing. Everyone who's trying to rebuild just a single library but has output like that will still end up with a broken system. There are no shortcuts with revdep-rebuild. Run it once with revdep-rebuild -p, and then you must run it again without the -p flag. Repeat revdep-rebuild -p/revdep-rebuild until there's no more output produced.

I had to run a full revdep-rebuild twice to get a clean upgrade. It's worth it to get an unbroken Xfce.

[SamuliSuominen]

Hi there,

I upgraded to XFCE 4.4 as SamuliSuominen described:
Any suggestions?

You didn't, you wouldn't have those files. Somehow you prolly mispelled,

emerge -C `qlist -CI xfce`

[geniux]

Hi there,

I upgraded to XFCE 4.4 as SamuliSuominen described:
[...]
Any suggestions?

I'm wondering how you did get xffm installed?

Well, follow nightmorph's and SamuliSuominen's suggestions and you should have an working environment

[ilm]

Why do people suggest running:

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revdep-rebuild -p
revdep-rebuild

rather than just

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revdep-rebuild -a

(or even revdep-rebuild without any flags at all)???

[mirko_3]

I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember that revdep-rebuild spits out an error with '-a'..

[ilm]

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 $ revdep-rebuild --help
Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS]

Broken reverse dependency rebuilder.

  -X, --package-names  Emerge based on package names, not exact versions
      --library NAME   Emerge existing packages that use the library with NAME
      --library=NAME   NAME can be a full path to the library or a basic
                       regular expression (man grep)
 -nc, --no-color       Turn off colored output
  -i, --ignore         Ignore temporary files from previous runs
  -q, --quiet          Be less verbose (also passed to emerge command)
 -vv, --extra-verbose  Be extra verbose

Calls emerge, all other options are used for it (e. g. -p, --pretend).

Report bugs to <http://bugs.gentoo.org>

I'm sure I've used it with -a before... but normally, I don't call it with any flags at all...

[Dieter@be]

ilm just run it with -a and you'll see what goes wrong (been there, done that )

[santaclaws]

Hi there,

I upgraded to XFCE 4.4 as SamuliSuominen described:
Any suggestions?

You didn't, you wouldn't have those files. Somehow you prolly mispelled,

emerge -C `qlist -CI xfce`

Hi SamuliSuominen

I followed exactly your guide to install XFCE 4.4 but nevertheless revdep-rebuild won`t work cleanly.

Each time I get the following output

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revdep-rebuild
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...

Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.la (requires /usr/lib/libxfcegui4.la)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.la (requires /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la)
 done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. 

So I decided to uninstall XFCE 4.4 (using emerge -C `qlist -CI xfce`) and to re-emerge the older version 4.2.3 which is unmasked in portage. A test run with revdep-rebuild did not give any strange output and did not automatically re-emerge any tiny little program.

After that I uninstalled that older XFCE and re-emerged Version 4.4.0 without problems. But again revdep-rebuild shows the following errors which I have just been posting.

I do not know any solution.

Each time it complains about

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  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.so (requires  libxfce4util.so.1 libxfcegui4.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.la (requires /usr/lib/libxfcegui4.la)
  broken /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmount.la (requires /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la)

It seems to be irreparable for me...

Do you have a solution?


Here is my emerge --info

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emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-viper1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-viper1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3, 2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache digest distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://85.25.128.62"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/beyond-sources /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/emission-sources /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/viper-sources"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="16bit X a52 aac accessibility acpi alsa apache2 apm arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo ccache cdinstall cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt ctype cups dba dbus dio directfb divx dlloader dmi doc dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild ffmpeg flash foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal i8x0 icc icons iconv idn ieee1394 imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad memlimit midi mikmod mime ming mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses newspr nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin numeric ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl pic plugins png pnp posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets source spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink tcl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vhosts vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xml2 xorg xosd xpm xsl xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa vga fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[dschep]

Is it just me or is xscreensaver considered a popup (in terms of setting opacity) by the xfwm4 compositor?

EDIT: I have the 'Display full screen overlay windows directly' option enabled.

[ilm]

Is it just me or is xscreensaver considered a popup (in terms of setting opacity) by the xfwm4 compositor?

Wouldn't have a clue, as I don't use the compositor, but I have noticed that I still get aMSN popups whilst the screen is locked with xscreensaver...

[onlinepancakes]

Does anyone know the command xfdesktop (or Xfce4 Desktop Preferences/dropdown thing) uses to set the wallpaper? I am trying to make a custom action for Thunar to set a photo as a wallpaper by just right clicking on the photo and click set as wallpaper.

[96140]

Does anyone know the command xfdesktop (or Xfce4 Desktop Preferences/dropdown thing) uses to set the wallpaper? I am trying to make a custom action for Thunar to set a photo as a wallpaper by just right clicking on the photo and click set as wallpaper.

man xfdesktop. And actually, isn't that built-in if Thunar and plugins are emerged with the right USE flags?

[tylerwylie]

Anyone got any good links to some good xfwin themes? None of the default ones really suit my tastes =(

[96140]

Anyone got any good links to some good xfwin themes? None of the default ones really suit my tastes =(

As mentioned in the Xfce Guide, Xfce-Look is a good place to search.

[skellr]

Anyone got any good links to some good xfwin themes? None of the default ones really suit my tastes =(

They are starting to get a few more back in the forums.
http://forum.xfce.org/

[onlinepancakes]

Does anyone know the command xfdesktop (or Xfce4 Desktop Preferences/dropdown thing) uses to set the wallpaper? I am trying to make a custom action for Thunar to set a photo as a wallpaper by just right clicking on the photo and click set as wallpaper.

man xfdesktop. And actually, isn't that built-in if Thunar and plugins are emerged with the right USE flags?

Already man xfdesktop already and read it. It says nothing on how to do it via commandline. I already have emerged Thunar many times and never once did it come with an option like that..

[Swift]

How can i add desktop icons?
In Desktop Preferences => Behavior => Desktop Icons i only can choose "Minimized application icons".
Shouldn't there be something like File/launcher Icons? (seen here: http://www.xfce.org/about/tour )

[ilm]

How can i add desktop icons?
In Desktop Preferences => Behavior => Desktop Icons i only can choose "Minimized application icons".
Shouldn't there be something like File/launcher Icons? (seen here: http://www.xfce.org/about/tour )

You are running xfce 4.4, aren't you, with xfdesktop? I have them there on the desktop by default...

(If you're running 4.2.*, there aren't any icons: they're new!)

[skazi]

How can i add desktop icons?
In Desktop Preferences => Behavior => Desktop Icons i only can choose "Minimized application icons".
Shouldn't there be something like File/launcher Icons? (seen here: http://www.xfce.org/about/tour )

i have this problem too.

[Dieter@be]

I used to have (4.4 install on gentoo) 3 options:
none
mimized application icons
file launcher icons

this was fine for a while, then after leaving my computer running for an afternoon (untouched), when i came back the background was reset to solid back, i had no more icons, and the available options for desktop icons were only "none" and "mimized application icons" since then

until now I've never seen a non-gentoo user complain about this (or a similar) issue

[onlinepancakes]

I don't use icons either, but I did notice I had no icons in there either. I did an reemerge of Xfdesktop and Thunar and they came back. So maybe try reemerging it again.