On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:50:13 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> said:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 20/03/2017 alle 04:02: > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:49:00 +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. > >> > >> Well, I installed acpid, now lid events are recognized but an old issue > >> is back: dpms. > >> Before installing acpid screen blanking did work as expected, after > >> reaching timeout the screen was really blanked out, with acpid installed > >> the backlight is never turned off so it is more an obscuring than a > >> blanking. Indeed "xset q" says that dmps is off :/ > > > > e enables dpms no matter what (unless blanking is off). unless something > > else modified dpms after e changed it... it should stay there. if you > > restart e it should go back to being set (ctrl+alt+end not log out and log > > in). acpid itself would not do this at all as it doesn't know about x. i > > suspect something like gnome-settings-daemon is doing this. poke there. > > Indeed that does the trick, dpms is enabled if I restart E. And yes, > gnome-settings-daemon is running, probably because gdm pulls it in. Is > there a way I can prevent gsd from starting and/or make it not mess with > dpms settings? kill it before e starts? :) use a ~/.xsession to do it then run enlightenment_start ? > >>>>> 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 :-) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >>>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> enlightenment-users mailing list > >>>> enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Massimo Maiurana > >> Ragusa (RG) > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> enlightenment-users mailing list > >> enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > >> > > > > > > > -- > Massimo Maiurana > Ragusa (RG) > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
