Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 Mar 2017 07:18:17 Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 09:49:14 Mick wrote: > >> I don't have a fix for you, but from the errors it seems pam is not > >> happy. Display Managers and various services install pam modules in > >> /etc/pam.d/ to manage

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-20 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 17 Mar 2017 09:49:14 Mick wrote: I don't have a fix for you, but from the errors it seems pam is not happy. Display Managers and various services install pam modules in /etc/pam.d/ to manage user authentication. It seems something is amiss there, or some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 20:30:46 Dale wrote: >> >> I use Fluxbox as a backup desktop. It's very, extremely, fast last I >> ran it. It's tiny last I checked too. I'm not sure how it compares to >> XFCE tho. It may be smaller. >> >> Just thought I would throw out one more

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 17 Mar 2017 20:30:46 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 15:57:14 I wrote: > >> So it looks as though something hasn't been installed right. I'm > >> running > >> an emerge -e world at the moment to see if I can pick something up from > >> it. > > > > Hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 15:57:14 I wrote: > >> So it looks as though something hasn't been installed right. I'm running >> an emerge -e world at the moment to see if I can pick something up from >> it. > Hasn't made the slightest difference, so I've decided to show LXDE the

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 17 Mar 2017 15:57:14 I wrote: > So it looks as though something hasn't been installed right. I'm running > an emerge -e world at the moment to see if I can pick something up from > it. Hasn't made the slightest difference, so I've decided to show LXDE the door: it clearly isn't ready

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 17 Mar 2017 09:49:14 Mick wrote: > I don't have a fix for you, but from the errors it seems pam is not happy. > Display Managers and various services install pam modules in /etc/pam.d/ > to manage user authentication. It seems something is amiss there, or > some kind of conflict

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 March 2017 09:32:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 08:56:18 Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > > On 170316-21:35+, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> I've just finished (well, you know) installing Gentoo on a new box and > > >> given it an LXDE desktop.

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 17 Mar 2017 08:56:18 Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > On 170316-21:35+, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I've just finished (well, you know) installing Gentoo on a new box and > >> given it an LXDE desktop. Every time I start the desktop, whether by > >> startx or via

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Miroslav Rovis wrote: On 170316-21:35+, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've just finished (well, you know) installing Gentoo on a new box and given it an LXDE desktop. Every time I start the desktop, whether by startx or via lxdm, I immediately get an error box saying "Could not connect: No such

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-16 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 170316-21:35+, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've just finished (well, you know) installing Gentoo on a new box and given > it an LXDE desktop. Every time I start the desktop, whether by startx or via > lxdm, I immediately get an error box saying "Could not connect: No such file

[gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've just finished (well, you know) installing Gentoo on a new box and given it an LXDE desktop. Every time I start the desktop, whether by startx or via lxdm, I immediately get an error box saying "Could not connect: No such file or directory." Does anyone here recognise this?

Re: [gentoo-user] lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

2017-03-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog box... just an error

Re: [gentoo-user] lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

2017-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:27:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences > Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog > box... just an error messages that says: > > Desktop manager is not active > > All the lxde-base pkgs

[gentoo-user] lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

2017-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog box... just an error messages that says:

[gentoo-user] lxde to lxqt migration plan

2014-06-20 Thread James
Howdy, I see lxqt(0.7) in portage now. I assume it is the qt5 based lxqt? I'm Not sure or if the lxqt-base/lxqt-meta--.7.0-r1 is still qt4 based? Anyway, I have looked for a migration guide and found little info. Being relatively new to the LX* scene, it took me some effort to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] lxde to lxqt migration plan

2014-06-20 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:17 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Howdy, I see lxqt(0.7) in portage now. I assume it is the qt5 based lxqt? I'm Not sure or if the lxqt-base/lxqt-meta--.7.0-r1 is still qt4 based? Hi, I've got lxqt-base/lxqt-meta-0.7.0-r1 installed and AFAICT its qt4

[gentoo-user] lxde +openbox updates

2014-01-24 Thread James
Hello, Well, I took the plunge and put LXDE and openbox on a FX-8350 with 32 gig of ram. KDE was just too much of a pig and I got tired of spending hours and hours of researching what had changesymmv. So I'm lov'n LXDE _ openbox, although I do have to go out and parse the scant documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] lxde +openbox updates

2014-01-24 Thread hasufell
On 01/24/2014 10:46 PM, James wrote: Hello, Well, I took the plunge and put LXDE and openbox on a FX-8350 with 32 gig of ram. KDE was just too much of a pig and I got tired of spending hours and hours of researching what had changesymmv. So I'm lov'n LXDE _ openbox, although I do have

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 March 2011 02:39:34 Kevin McCarthy wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:51:54PM -0500, dhk wrote: On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: I installed xdm and slim, but strange things happen with that. When I run /etc/xinit.d/xdm start the slim login appears, but the right

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-06 Thread dhk
On 03/05/2011 09:39 PM, Kevin McCarthy wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:51:54PM -0500, dhk wrote: On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: I installed xdm and slim, but strange things happen with that. When I run /etc/xinit.d/xdm start the slim login appears, but the right half of my

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-05 Thread dhk
On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop (amd64). It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs. It never returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can switch to an alternate terminal. Strange.

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-05 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:51:54PM -0500, dhk wrote: On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: I installed xdm and slim, but strange things happen with that. When I run /etc/xinit.d/xdm start the slim login appears, but the right half of my keyboard doesn't work right. For example when I

[gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-03 Thread dhk
I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop (amd64). It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs. It never returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can switch to an alternate terminal. Has anyone had this problem and know how to fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop (amd64). It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs. It never returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can switch to an alternate terminal. Has anyone had this problem and know

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:35:08PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote No. But try Alt-SysRq-R, this removes keyboard control from X, and you should be able to switch to a text terminal. If not, Alt-SysRq-{E,I,S,U,B} (with little pasues between each) will at least do a cleaner reboot than hitting the

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-03 Thread daid kahl
I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop (amd64).  It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs.  It never returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can switch to an alternate terminal. Strange. Never used LXDE, but KDE and Xfce I never