LXDE desktop for slackware 13.1 - testing

ponce · 08-06-2010, 12:45 PM

(sorry if this is mainly a cut and paste from here but it's very hard to find the words for saying the same things twice

)

hi, finally found the time to work a little on this: I've prepared a second round of slackbuilds and packages based mainly on the git version of the various components (many improvements in there).
hope I haven't missed anything of the things spotted (still have to do experiments with suspend).
maybe is better if I just cut and paste from the README.txt of the download folder

Code:

LXDE for slackware current
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many of the slackbuilds here are from alien bob's repository and slackbuilds.org

http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/lxde/build/

http://slackbuilds.org/

I simply adapted/updated some things to build on current and added some others.
You can check the build scripts used in the "build" folder:
LXDE.SlackBuild is the script to launch (it uses a build queue, it's a modified
version of kde build script).

I updated the version of the stuff beyond the latest stable packages on sourceforge, as on git there's lotta new interesting stuff going on:

- new libfm and pcmanfm with automounting/udisks support
- new lxappearance (this is version 2, renamed in the build script)
- many translation and other updates

How to use:

* install the packages for your architecture:

  - the i486 ones if you are running slackware-current
  - the x86_64 ones if you are running slackware64-current

packages are UNTESTED on 13.1 (but, who knows, they might work ;) )

* be sure to have installed the packages tango-icon-theme (for the default
  desktop icons/menu theme), vte (for lxterminal), atk, glib, pango, cairo and
  gtk+2 from the official slackware repository (obviously also X packages :P).

* run xwmconfig as user and choose the lxde session.

* start/restart X.

* if you want to run lxdm as the session manager (optional) apply the patch that you can
  find in this directory (instructions are inside the patch itself) to
  /etc/rc.d/rc.4

**************************************
              WARNING!
**************************************
these packages include *one* update of the standard slackware packages, glib2,
but unfortunately is needed for the new libfm.

http://blog.lxde.org/?p=768

if you find any problems report them on this linuxquestion thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lxde-desktop-for-slackware-13-1-testing-810047/

I'm only a little disappointed for having to upgrade glib2 but, you know, it's testing stuff

soon I'll try to do branches about these packages on my slackbuilds.org fork so I can use this stuff in my sbopkg queue: for eric scripts I think I'll do a first commit in the corresponding branch adding the original script and a second one with the modified version (I tried to follow the autotools-template).
you can find on the download page also a .tar of the build folder (with the sources folder and links in the slackbuilds folders too, for easy self-building).

happy testing!

linus72 · 08-06-2010, 12:49 PM

Hey Ponce
Just wondering if you checked out lxappearance2?
Its very nice though I can only get it to work as root in ARCH?!
Opening as user gives segfault

see here;
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102337

I also tried building on slackware, no dice just segfault...

ponce · 08-06-2010, 12:54 PM

it worked ok for me, I made a package of that for testing: I built everything on slackware-current.

wild guess based on nothing: if you're using a plain current, can it be related with the new glib2 (I had to upgrade)?

linus72 · 08-06-2010, 12:57 PM

is the package available Ponce?
I looked in your repo coudn't find it...
thx

ponce · 08-06-2010, 01:01 PM

i486 and x86_64.

you should be able to find them from the main download folder (maybe you missed the link above

)

linus72 · 08-06-2010, 01:07 PM

I apologize Ponce as I was looking for "lxappearance2"
duh?!

So, you've had no issues with it huh?
I really like LXDE
thx

linus72 · 08-06-2010, 01:12 PM

uh-huh
it's segfaulting too....

Code:

bash-4.1$ lxappearance

(lxappearance:2182): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_get_valist: object class `GtkSettings' has no property named `gtk-toolbar-style'
** (lxappearance:2182): DEBUG: cursor theme name: (null)

(lxappearance:2182): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_regex_match_full: assertion `regex != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault

ponce · 08-06-2010, 02:07 PM

dunno what, working ok here

don't know if you've tried yet (and also if you're using current) but I would try upgrading glib2 (as I wrote some posts ago).
or rebuild the stuff you want from the build.tar (it can be you need all of the packages so you simply launch ./LXDE.SlackBuild from the uncompressed build folder).

ah, I tested suspend and it works on my laptop

linus72 · 08-06-2010, 04:07 PM

OK
Yes, I am only running current in all my installs...
I'll have to build whole LXDE to get new lxappearance?
Oh, I got it...

Hey, Ponce, have you checked out PCManFM-Mod?
awesome and better than pcmanfm...
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34819

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm-mod/

http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/mod-pcmanfm/

linus72 · 08-06-2010, 05:03 PM

Update; tried building the whole LXDE build and failed at building libatasmart....
ah...I'll try on my "true" Slackware current build as this one has stuff from SalixOS, Slacky, etc....

rworkman · 08-07-2010, 01:05 AM

You're going to need to upgrade gtk+2 as well; that should eliminate the segfault in lxappearance.

ponce · 08-07-2010, 02:09 AM

tnx for the hint, linus, but can't follow that way: pcmanfm-mod looks fine (it has many interesting new stuff), but it won't support udisks

@robby: until glib2 won't get updated in mainline these are surely not suitable for SBo

I think I'll wait a little, then maybe I'll simply switch to building pcmanfm with support for gnome-vfs instead of udisks, if not they can't go in 13.1 repo, maybe I'll add a note about this in the README: any hint is much appreciated.

Ahmed · 08-08-2010, 03:36 AM

Thanks for the updates! I had encountered a problem while updating pcmanfm, for some reason it didn't automatically launch the desktop manager. I had to modify /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and add the argument --desktop to the line with pcmanfm for that to work.

Furthermore, I get a "No authorization" error message when trying to mount a USB pen drive. Apparently this has something to do with policykit, but everything I googled hasn't helped. Any ideas?

-A

ponce · 08-08-2010, 04:26 AM

maybe these are only problems related to old configuration files: the new lxde-common package should have installed an /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart.new file that has to be manually moved to /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart.

to mount usb drives you need also from standard slackware ConsoleKit, polkit and polkit-gnome, and your user has to be in group plugdev.

relaunch also xwmconfig so that it will rewrite your xinitrc for lxde, "ck-launch-session startlxde" should be in there.

Ahmed · 08-08-2010, 04:51 PM

I have all those packages, and my user is in plugdev, yet I still cannot mount my pen drive or external hard drive. Automatic mounting is enabled, however I still get the error "Not authorized".

I tried to find any self-explanatory configuration file regarding policykit, but I failed.. Any tips are greatly appreciated!

-A