LXDE desktop for slackware 13.1 - testing

ponce · 08-09-2010, 02:22 AM

it should behave correctly without any configuration.

if you've installed all the packages on the download folder on a full slackware -current and you added your user to the default slackware desktop's user groups (it's done during user creation pressing up-arrow when selecting default groups) the only thing I can think of that can cause this behaviour is your ~/.xinitirc file: can you please post it, if you have one in your $HOME?

I have doing my tests starting from a clean ~/.config folder: a thing to check is moving it elsewhere and restart the desktop session...

try also to

Code:

removepkg gnome-vfs

as it shouldn't be needed anymore (also hal shouldn't).

Ahmed · 08-10-2010, 03:56 AM

Here's my ~/.xinitrc:

Code:

bass@Slackware:~$ cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# Start the window manager:
if [ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]; then
    ck-launch-session startlxde
else
    startlxde
fi

I tried renaming .config/ and restarting, didn't help

Sorry for constantly bugging you on this, I'm just out of ideas. Thanks a lot for your help!

-A

ponce · 08-10-2010, 04:59 AM

no prob

can you try creating a new user with adduser granting him default permissions for desktop use (if you follow the procedure it will tell you when to press the up arrow) and see if it behaves the same with this new user?

some questions:

- are you using 13.1 or current?

- can you please post the output (maybe on pastebin, posting the resulting link here, can be better) of

Code:

LS_OPTIONS='' ; ls -1 /var/log/packages

Ahmed · 08-10-2010, 05:00 PM

I created a test user and placed it in suggested additional groups (audio, cdrom, floppy, plugdev, video, power, netdev). Still, it's not authorized to mount external drives. It only works well if I log in to LXDE as root.

I'm using a rather up-to-date -current. Here's my list of installed packages:

http://pastebin.com/CuN6CNXg

Thanks!

-A

ponce · 08-11-2010, 01:31 AM

at a glance packages should be ok.

but thinking well, I'll think I omitted to say one simple thing that I verified also in my tests, maybe related:

I got problems mounting as a user usb/pendrive partitions that are already in /etc/fstab: try to comment them out if you got them there.

Ahmed · 08-11-2010, 02:16 AM

Wow, haven't edited fstab since Fedora Core 3, ages ago

But anyway, there are no entries for any external drive. I even commented out the entry for my DVD drive, but can't mount DVDs either.

Then again, on the previous version of LXDE I was using, automount wasn't supported at all, and I mounted everything by command. Since I was planning on getting a new laptop soon and installing everything from scratch, I guess I can live with this for a couple of weeks. At least my LXDE experience is, as a whole, much nicer..

Many thanks for your packages and support!

-A

Pode · 08-11-2010, 07:49 AM

Run in terminal

Code:

ck-list-session

If there are two session than probably that is the problem.
I changed the /etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrc
This:

Code:

# Start the window manager:
if [ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]; then
    ck-launch-session startlxde
else
    startlxde
fi

To this:

Code:

# Start the window manager:
startlxde

And now i have only one ConsoleKit session and mounting is working

Ahmed · 08-11-2010, 05:07 PM

Awesome! That did the trick

Thank you very, very much!

Now my Slackware experience is flawless. You guys rock!

-A

rworkman · 08-11-2010, 05:16 PM

Whoa whoa, what DM are you running? If lxdm, does lxdm not set DESKTOP_SESSION in the environment? If not, someone *please* file a bug to make it behave like other dm implementations.

ponce · 08-11-2010, 05:32 PM

I haven't hit this cause I always use runlevel 3

btw tnx Pode for identifying another problem

Ahmed · 08-12-2010, 12:48 AM

rworkman, I'm using lxdm, and

Code:

$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

returns 'LXDE', both with my old and new xinitrc. There doesn't seem to be a problem there. Or did you mean something else?

-A

ponce · 08-12-2010, 07:58 AM

I found something in lxdm.c: looks like DESKTOP_SESSION is passed to env only if PAM is used.

excuse my n00bness robby, should I report pcman that maybe it's needed also in no-PAM situations?

rworkman · 08-12-2010, 10:10 AM

Well, I'm not sure, since I haven't used all of this (and won't have time to even download it, much less install it, in the near future). That certainly appears to be the case though.

I can't help but wonder if the $HOME copy of xinitrc and the system copy were out of sync though -- i.e. the copy at $HOME/.xinitrc still had the hardcoded use of ck-launch-session (without checking for DESKTOP_SESSION), while the system copy (in /etc/X11/xinit/) had the proper checking. The copy in $HOME doesn't get updated unless you re-run xwmconfig.

That being said, I don't think that's relevant with lxdm being used, so maybe we're just back where we started :-)

ponce · 08-13-2010, 12:59 AM

they suggest to use XDG_SESSION_COOKIE.

NOTE to all: if you want to try this stuff with qemu/kvm, be sure to set in your guest's /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

Code:

DefaulthDepth 16

or, with default 24, you will hit a bug with qemu's cirrus emulated graphic board and openbox.

ponce · 08-18-2010, 09:32 AM

added xmms2, lxpanel-xmms2, lxmusic, gtknetcat and lxadmin (from sidux, now on the official lxde git), to complete the LXDE components + updated thingies to latest git status + fixed xinitrc.lxde:

http://ponce.cc/slackware/testing/lxde-git/