Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-16 Thread Tazman Deville
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:00:07PM -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Tazman Deville, 15.10.2013: You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. Can we narrow it down to what possible files might actually affect it without

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:26 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: I can't help but think there's a deeper, underlying issue somewhere that might again rear its head. It's normal that GNOME and GTK stuff nowadays breaks software regularly and it's usually not the fault of the Linux distros, it really is

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Tazman Deville
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:06:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:44 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: Well, someone suggested looking in dmesg, but, of course, there's absolutely nothing relevant there. This would display the output of the kernel ring buffer, to see what's

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:22:06PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 12:42, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:22:06PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Tazman Deville
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:33:20PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 12:42, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:22:06PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Tazman Deville, 15.10.2013: You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. Can we narrow it down to what possible files might actually affect it without implementing such drastic measures? I don't know much about pcmanfm, but I

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 23:38, Tazman Deville a écrit : You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? Yes. That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. Why that? It is only moving. Doing a backup, in fact. If you are feared by that, you can also create a new user, and copy

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 01:04 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 23:38, Tazman Deville a écrit : You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? Yes. That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. Why that? It is only moving. Hi, I didn't

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my user. So it must be a

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Tazman Deville
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my user. Or, really, what happens is, it seems to start (can find

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Tazman Deville
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:44 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: Well, someone suggested looking in dmesg, but, of course, there's absolutely nothing relevant there. This would display the output of the kernel ring buffer, to see what's going wrong during a session, first take a look at

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:46 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: Oh, and something I've neglected to mention: I have also aptitude remove purged it and reinstalled it, as well, several times, and this also produces no change. Did you remove it's configuration file(s) in $HOME/??? too? -- To

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 14:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: less ~/.xsession-errors Since you don't get an output, when you launch pcmanfm in a terminal, take a look if .xsession-errors shows something that might be related to pcmanfm, unlikely that there will be output for pcmanfm. -- To

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-09-30 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:19:26AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 02:14:34PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:38:19PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-09-29 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:38:19PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my user.

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 02:14:34PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:38:19PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other

pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-09-27 Thread Tony Baldwin
Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my user. Or, really, what happens is, it seems to start (can find processes and kill them), but no window appears. It seems to hang. I

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-09-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my user. Have you tried deleting .config/pcmanfm instead of replacing it