On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:47:12 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> said:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 20/03/2017 alle 03:57: > > 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. > > Yeah, something similar. I tried removing cache and it said I had no > permissions to do it, so I removed the cache as root then killed efreetd > and now icons are back in menu and in evry ^^ well well. something maybe ran as root and wrote your efreet cache thus preventing YOU from ever updating it... but it used the $HOME of your user when doing it... hmmm. interesting. > Thanks > > >> 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
