Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:32:34AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote:
On Aug 30, 2015 12:17 AM, "Paul Rogers" <paulgrogers at fastmail.fm> wrote:
I generally just use fluxbox, but a DE is expected anymore, so I
installed XFCE. Seems to work, though Thunar seems sort of half-
baked. I followed the book (~7.2). First problem is I'm not getting
any icons or thumbnails on "folders" or files. Any suggestions to
fix this?
Hi Paul,
Did you install Tumbler?
Douglas R. Reno
In general, I do not go out of my way looking for icons (and I try
to keep them off the desktop). But generally, missing icons
probably means you need to add (more) icon themes - not every theme
seems to cover everything - or change to a different theme.
At some point in the past, I stopped getting icons _within_ evince
(i.e. because a newer version used different icons). At that time,
Fernando pointed my to lappearance as a way of changing the theme.
I don't remember any more details about icons.
Yes, I followed the book, a SVN version contemporaneous with the LFS-7.2
I installed (20121102).
However, I am just discovering a couple glitches I didn't know I had,
but don't know for sure how to solve.
xfdesktop: Thumbnailer failed on calling GetFlavors
xfce4-session: Querying CanRestart failed, Failed to connect to socket
/var/run/dbus/system-bus-socket. Permission denied.
Two more of the last for CanShutdown, etc.
/var/run/dbus is 770 (Should be 777?
Mine is 755. Do you change umask anywhere? The scripts (mine) do not
address permissions but do, of course, run as root during boot.
Could be my fault, I rewrote all
the init bootscripts.)
/var/run/dbus/system-bus-socket is 4777
Yes, I have that too.
For perms, /var/run/dbus seems to work for me as 755.
The perms for the socket itself look correct to me, but are you
starting the system dbus in your rewritten bootcripts ?
It looks to me as if 'startxfce4' will start things itself, but did
you remember to _install_ ConsoleKit and upower ? The CanRestart
and CanShutdown need upowerd to be installed (it gets invoked by
dbus) and it needs ConsoleKit - I was reminded of that last night,
forgot to install it when testing sddm with kf5 in a vm, and was very
surprised that I could not shutdown or reboot from sddm although
upower had been installed. For me, that was a classic 'FBBG' or
rather, "Read Book Again, in detail, Book Good" (for current svn in
this context).
I get annoyed by the ConsoleKit, upowerd, etc stuff. I don't know why
they can't just fall back to /etc/group membership.
But overall, much of this stuff solves problems that BLFS builders
do not often encounter. For many years I used to treat dbus as a
build dep, and then I treated its bootscript as a runtime
dependency. It's only in the last 6 weeks that I've had to look at
it again.
Complexity for all. That's the ticket.
-- Bruce
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