Color dialog is missing in XFCE Settings Manager

SW64 · 01-21-2023, 06:34 PM

Inspired by this thread, https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...re-4175721009/ , I decided to take a look in XFCE to see if I can activate color management on my computer. I think I've found what I'm looking for in this webpage https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/color but the Color dialog is missing from my xfce4-settings. I have both colord and xiccd installed and neither one seems to activate the Color dialog in xfce4-settings. For some reasons, the Color dialog is missing from my system. I don't know if it's specific to my computer or if that's the case with all Slackware installations. I then found the xfce4-settings's git website: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-s...master/dialogs

Is that my path forward if I wish to install the Color dialog? Compiling the git xfce4-settings for a customized installation? Is there a way to compile just the Color dialog and install it to my existing xfce4-settings installation? I would like to leave the installed xfce4-settings to the real pros here.

Slackware64 15.0 current via ponce's git.
xfce4-settings-manager 4.18.1 (Xfce 4.18)

J_W · 01-21-2023, 07:08 PM

Hi,

If you've already installed colord,
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/colord/
Recompiling xfce4-settings with "--enable-colord" option will be the solution.

SW64 · 01-22-2023, 09:31 AM

Code:

# ./autogen.sh --enable-colord
# make
# make install

Wow, that worked. Thank you!

Is there a list somewhere where I can see what options are available to turn on and off when compiling xfce4-settings?

rizitis · 01-23-2023, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SW64

Code:

# ./autogen.sh --enable-colord
# make
# make install

Wow, that worked. Thank you!

Is there a list somewhere where I can see what options are available to turn on and off when compiling xfce4-settings?

You can search https://github.com/xfce-mirror and find all available options for every package.
For example after line 130 you will find plenty..
Here also is good place to find things for xfce4

And personally when I want to build a desktop out of Slackware tree, or to rebuild something special, I always take a look to BLFS pages... its a must for me.
For example here

SW64 · 01-23-2023, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rizitis

You can search https://github.com/xfce-mirror and find all available options for every package.
For example after line 130 you will find plenty..
Here also is good place to find things for xfce4

And personally when I want to build a desktop out of Slackware tree, or to rebuild something special, I always take a look to BLFS pages... its a must for me.
For example here

Very helpful. Thank you!