On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:29:13 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> said:

> 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.

acpid is for both. it provides a public socket to listen to for acpi events.
thus e uses it and has used it for many many many years. i wrote the support.

> >> 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 ;)

did you select an icon theme under look -> application theme -> icons ? maybe
you somehow have a broken or stale efreet cache? rm -rf ~/.cache/efreet +
killall eftreed.

> 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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