Are you honestly complaining about issues with software you've compiled from a development repository? If you want super stable, consistent software use the *releases*. They are there for a reason.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Florian Schaefer <list...@netego.de> wrote: > Hello enlightenment, > > thanks to everybody for their hard efforts in developing this amazing > piece of software. Been using E for 10+ years now (I guess). Though, > lately it is making my life a bit more difficult (to say the least) and > I am getting to the point where I seriously considered switching to a > different WM as I cannot get my most basic tasks done any more. So I > decided to join the users discussions and try to slowly get my troubles > mended out. ;-) > > I am running the latest (ok, currently dating back to Sunday) git of > pretty much everything on a Debian/sid, and my problems started about > two or three weeks ago, I guess. > > One of them is related to window focus. I use sloppy focus and ever so > often it goes astray: I have, e.g., a java application, Pauker, that at > some point emits some kind of "alert", getting the focus. However, the > window is at that time on another virtual desktop and the window my > mouse cursor currently resides in is still having the decorations to > tell me "hey, I have currently the focus". Even moving the mouse between > some windows does not recover the focus (even though the title bars > indicate activated windows as expected). I am forced to switch to the > Pauker application, do something there and only after that I finally > regain control over my focus. > > I am experiencing a similar issue sometimes with the "Wicd Network > Manager" GUI window. It seems to have the focus when I hover with the > mouse over it. But then I try to press the connect button and just at > that moment it goes out of focus and the click gets to the underlying > window instead. To fix this I need to switch a bit between virtual > desktops and other windows until I can finally click this nasty connect > button. Very unnerving. > > Another point is application icons. Most of my application icons have > disappeared, both in the start menus (that's not so bad) and in the > windows itself (it get's kind of tricky to distinguish between several > minimized applications if all of them are without any kind of icon). The > point is that I cannot make out the system behind which icons are > missing. Some system applications are fine, some are not. Some of my > .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications are fine, some are not. > And it also does not seem to be related to a particular type of image > format. Tried to delete the efreet cache, to no avail. I also tried to > define the application icons again by using the "create icon" function, > but this also does not work, the icon is shown in the configuration > dialog but seems to be discarded I closed this dialog (well, honestly > speaking I cannot remember a time in all those years where the "create > icon" function really reliably worked for me). > > Perhaps related to that, most applications have also vanished from > Everything, and I get messages such as "app not found acroread" on the > console. Even though my acroread is still there and happily around. > > I think that are my two main points for now: Trouble working at all > because I cannot get to focus the windows I need to be in focus and > trouble identifying them as they do not have any icons. > > I complied all e related stuff for a long time now without physics, > without gstreamer and without pulseaudio. But as someone introduced this > --really-nice-new-super-long-configure-option I tried to get at least > physics and gstreamer into efl. But really, I do not need a desktop > environment, just a window manager. I disabled anything related to efm > and could curse any program that creates a ~/Desktop folder. I do not > want this dammed thing. Therefore I also do not understand why I am > forced into compiling fancy stuff like physics simulation or video > playback into my WM. (I am happy using mplayer and and additonal video > libraries I am forced to install are just bloating my system without any > additional benefit to me.) But that's another, more philosophical, > question for now I guess... ;-) > > OK, sorry for the long rant, and cheers to everyone, > Florian > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > -- ~Jeff Hoogland <http://jeffhoogland.com/> Thoughts on Technology <http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/>, Tech Blog Bodhi Linux <http://bodhilinux.com/>, Enlightenment for your Desktop ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. 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