Hello,

I sucessfully made it past the stable LFS book and now I'm in the stable BLFS book, trying to get a nice desktop set up. Well, I went with the XFCE desktop and everything seemed to start up fine doing

but I can't help but notice that it seems like the borders on the buttons or dropdown boxes on certain applications are missing when there should be. Could it be something with GTK+2/3?

Attached are examples with xfce4-terminal and xfce4-power-manager.

P.S. I apologize for the quality of the pictures, but hopefully you get the idea.

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Hya

I regret to say that I do not have answer at all, but I ran into similar situation a while ago.
regretfully

cheers.

Well, I'm confident that I shouldn't have any problems like this with LXDE because I've used it once before on a previous build.

But I really want to try and figure out why this is happening. I'll take a look at that post and see if I can get any ideas from it.

Hi
Add legacy fonts
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs.../x7legacy.html

spiky0011,

I checked the packages that I've installed and it's there. I even reinstalled it (I'm using Slackware package management) but still no luck.

When you say slack package management is it being installed in correct place
/usr/bin/bdftopcf
$XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/

what dose the script lok like?

Another option install another window manager "openbox" i used to do that whem i 1st noticed the same thing?

spiky0011,

So to be precise, I'm using slacktrack as I'm following the book and installing packages (I do have other programs like pkgtool, installpkg, etc. some of which I probably won't need). That way if I mess up, I will be able to "clean up" the mess.

Anyway, the output of that is
I was actually thinking about using openbox and I installed it. I'm trying to figure out how to integrate it with XFCE. So far, when I start openbox-session, the screen is blank with empty borders.

I got openbox to work (I even logged out and logged back, if it makes a difference) but the problem still persists.

Now I'm at a loss...

I take it you have installed gtk xfce engines and deps

I do have them... but now I wonder if it was out of order. ?_?

I rebuilt LFS again, this time I made a backup image using Clonezilla.

Rebuilt XFCE again with the recommended dependencies except I downgraded glib, gtk, gio to the versions in BLFS 8.1, and I'm still having the problem.

What seems to work/help is integrating LXDE applications with XFCE.