Xfce 4.8.0

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Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:05 pm

jongust wrote:echo $XDG_MENU_PREFIX
gnome-

Where ever it is being set it needs to be XDG_MENU_PREFIX="xfce-"

either you are setting it in your .bash_profile, .xinitrc or somewhere in /etc/env.d/*

jongust · Post by **jongust** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:15 pm

echo $XDG_MENU_PREFIX
xfce4

it was in .xinitrc

Now I am getting this error:

File "menus/xfce4applications.menu" not found

I found this post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... oo-828997/
and a few others, but still no menu.

Any other ideas??

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:31 am

jongust wrote:echo $XDG_MENU_PREFIX
xfce4

it was in .xinitrc

Now I am getting this error:

File "menus/xfce4applications.menu" not found

I found this post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... oo-828997/
and a few others, but still no menu.

Any other ideas??

Look above your last post in red

jongust · Post by **jongust** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:46 pm

changeing my .xinitrc to what you originally posted fixed my problem. Now I can enjoy my favourite window manager again.

export XDG_MENU_PREFIX="xfce-"
#exec startfluxbox
exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session

Thanks for help!
much appreciated

lalebarde · Post by **lalebarde** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:16 pm

Just updated to xfce4 4.8. Migration of my personal panel configuration files was awfull. I lost many widgets I cannot re-install anymore like Verve or Orage time&date. My Terminal histories and tabs are lost, and finally my session is lost.

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:20 pm

merged some posts above

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:04 am

Sometimes when I close applications, their taskbar button stays in the panel and can't be removed. The only way to get rid of it is to kill and restart xfce4-panel. Is this happening to anyone else?

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:08 am

epsilon72 wrote:taskbar button stays in the panel and can't be removed

See my bug report.

I recently tried the xubuntu beta, and it has the same bug.

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:32 am

PaulBredbury wrote:
epsilon72 wrote:taskbar button stays in the panel and can't be removed
See my bug report.

I recently tried the xubuntu beta, and it has the same bug.

That explains it. I've been using the "draw window frame on hover" feature too.

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:20 am

nichocouk wrote:My own 2cents problem is that now Thunar shows a pile of previously hidden files whose names end with a ~
I don't want to see them in Thunar or on my desktop but could not find how to disable this. Any idea?

I still have this issue that Thunar shows files which should be hidden, such as backup files with filenames ending with "~", or ".bak".
Is there an option somewhere that I've overlooked?
Of course, I've disabled the 'Show hidden files' option. The only difference it makes is that this hides my 'dot' files.
In the previous Thunar / xfce version the "~" and ".bak" files were properly hidden.
Thanks for any help!

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:58 am

I've had nothing but problems with thunar since the 4.8 update

Just today I tried to copy around 500MB from an ipod (used as external storage), and thunar instantly ate all of my RAM and pretty much crashed X. I've also had problems with other external drives with files not copying, drives refusing to mount/unmount (thunar's fault according to lsof in most cases), etc.

Anyone else having problems?

lucky_rooster · Post by **lucky_rooster** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:22 am

Seems like the latest Thunar and/or volume management took a step backwards - it acts rather flaky when dealing with removable dives. My biggest gripe is that it shows the inserted drive but clicking on the drive doesn't display the drive's contents. Sometimes it will then go and expand the side pane tree to the actual mount point. I have to close Thunar and restart it to get it to display the content of the root of the removable drive.

Haven't noticed hidden files showing up when they shouldn't.

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:16 pm

lucky_rooster wrote: Haven't noticed hidden files showing up when they shouldn't.

Files named like "~foo" don't show up for me either.

hielvc · Post by **hielvc** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:18 pm

And to get rid of the blah.abc~ I made a .bak/ folder and edited nanorc and/or my other editors to stick the backups there. Not the fix you want but it works.

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:12 pm

At least I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this problem

To epsilon72: the problem is with files names foo.bar~, not ~foo
To hielvc: it's a good idea although it's a shame thunar is having this little problem...

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:16 pm

nichocouk wrote: To hielvc: it's a good idea although it's a shame thunar is having this little problem...

The current version of thunar has no shortage of problems

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Sun May 01, 2011 1:41 pm

I am also having the issue that Thunar does not generate any preview / thumbnail of any file type. I've removed the ~/.thumbnails directory to see if it was going to be re-created but it isn't.
Am I missing something?

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Tue May 03, 2011 9:03 pm

As a last attempt to try and solve my various issues with thunar, I've wiped out all my dot config files and folders, hoping that a fresh new XFCE environment setting would just make it work. I've just managed to waste my time

oh well...

mbar · Post by **mbar** » Thu May 05, 2011 6:05 am

nichocouk wrote:Am I missing something?

Like xfce-extra/tumbler?

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Thu May 05, 2011 8:22 am

mbar wrote:
nichocouk wrote:Am I missing something?
Like xfce-extra/tumbler?

Hurray! Thank you!
(I promised I googled to find the answer but tumbler never turned up in the results...)

neonl · Post by **neonl** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:05 pm

Hi

I'm using Xfce 4.8.0, portage-stable, followed the Tips for using udev/consolekit correctly, shutting down, rebooting, automounting, etc., etc., works well, but the battery monitoring plugin for Xfce-panel is having a bizarre behavior (it shows "50%%", independently of how much battery I have, the settings I use, or whatever): http://i.imgur.com/80NBv.png

Also, this is my kernel's (2.6.39-gentoo-r3) .config.

Thanks!

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:29 pm

I hate to say this, but Thunar sucks. In addition to the issues with hidden files which are not hidden (see posts above), I have to refresh manually (ie do Ctrl-R or go to View -> Reload) to update the content of my folders. Otherwise newly created files won't appear. What kind of file manager is that?
Or am I missing something?

SamuliSuominen · Post by **SamuliSuominen** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:22 pm

nichocouk wrote:I hate to say this, but Thunar sucks. In addition to the issues with hidden files which are not hidden (see posts above), I have to refresh manually (ie do Ctrl-R or go to View -> Reload) to update the content of my folders. Otherwise newly created files won't appear. What kind of file manager is that?
Or am I missing something?

Like INOTIFY support in kernel, or USE="fam" not set and gam-server not installed?

nichocouk · Post by **nichocouk** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:26 pm

Thanks. Sorry I forgot to include my USE settings etc.

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[ebuild   R    ] xfce-base/thunar-1.2.3  USE="dbus exif libnotify pcre startup-notification udev -debug -test" XFCE_PLUGINS="trash" 0 kB
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdparanoia cli cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dga directfb doc dri dvd dvdread encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk iconv icu imagemagick ipv6 java java6 jpeg ladspa lame latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate mad mmx mng modules motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack ncurses neXt nis nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf plotutils png policykit ppds pppd quicktime readline scanner session sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs t1lib taglib tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 xcomposite xft xine xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp2600n" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="canon canon630u canon_dr canon_pp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness logout menu trash" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"

Now I did not have the fam USE flag, so I've now activated it (only glib was affected), recompiled, rebooted, and checked that gam-server was installed.
However, Thunar still does not react on file changes and only will react if I refresh the view manually.

Cheers

Xfce 4.8.0

Re: never seen this command before

ok changed the output

Re: ok changed the output

That was it....