On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:42:46 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> said:

> Massimo Maiurana ha scritto il 19/03/2017 alle 14:29:
> > Mick ha scritto il 19/03/2017 alle 13:23:
> >> On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 09:44:23 Massimo Maiurana wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I finally bought a brand new laptop :)
> >>>
> >>> Of course I installed E, building from source as I've always did but I
> >>> have two problems to solve.
> >>>
> >>> The first is regarding acpi events: closing lid the laptop should
> >>> suspend, and indeed it is what happens under gnome (there also lid open
> >>> resumes it) but does not happen under E. Acpid is not installed so
> >>> probably that's what I need, but I wonder why it works in gnome.
> >>
> >> I don't run gnome, but from a more generic perspective you will need to 
> >> install acpid and make sure it is running as a service when you boot up.  
> >> Closing the lid then generates an event captured by acpid which by default 
> >> will suspend to ram.  Check what you have at Settings > Settings Panel >
> >> Input 
> >>> ACPI Bindings > Lid Closed.  I have set mine to 'Suspend Intelligently'
> >>> and 
> >> it works as advertised.
> > 
> > Hmh, well, i'm not sure acpid is required for this to work. I think
> > acpid is for managing acpi events, not for exposing them, or lid close
> > wouldn't work even under other environments. I'll try installing it and
> > see if it solves the problem.
> 
> Before doing that I tried "listening" for events with "journalctl -f"
> and this is what I see:
> mar 19 14:39:07 diamante systemd-logind[498]: Lid closed.
> mar 19 14:39:11 diamante systemd-logind[498]: Lid opened.
> 
> So the event is exposed by systemd-logind, and I guess that gnome relies
> on that but wonder why E doesn't do the same.

because acpid works. it has been supported long before systemd ever existed and
no one has sent patches to work with systemd only without acpid.

> >>> The second is about icons: Applications menu is full populated with all
> >>> applications, including my own in ~/.local/share/applications, but only
> >>> 3 of them have an icon associated (a custom of mine, gnome-font-viewer
> >>> and the E filemanager). Also, much more annoying, evry doesn't list
> >>> desktop applications in the list that appears when I start typing, only
> >>> executables and directories are listed.
> >>
> >> Settings > Settings Panel > Menu Settings > Applications, should give you
> >> some options.  One of these ought to make all/most application icons to
> >> show up. Also check Settings > Settings Panel > Menu Settings >
> >> Miscellaneous, does not have 'Disable icons in menus' selected.
> > 
> > I DO have applications in menu, my problem is not that. What I miss is
> > icons for applications, but for that three applications mentioned above
> > that have an icon in their own menu entry. If "disable icons" was
> > checked I wouldn't have any icon neither for those three ;)
> > 
> > Also, as said, I don't have applications displayed in evry.
> > E.g. on the other laptop if I type "ice" in evry I see the icedove icon
> > and so I can launch that application; I also see the icedove binary but
> > can distinguish between them because the application starts with a
> > capital letter and also displays an icon. In this laptop if i type "ice"
> > I see only the icedove executable, not the application.
> > 
> > Other example: I have a custom application named "Bpiol", which executes
> > a binary called "launcher_linux.bat". If I type "bp" I don't see the
> > application, and because the executable doesn't have the same name I
> > don't see nothing. But evry displays menu categories as dirs, so if I
> > browse that dirs I can reach any application including "Bpiol".
> > 
> >> To configure Everything, check your settings under Settings > Settings
> >> Panel > Launcher.
> >>
> >> HTH  :-)
> >>
> >>
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