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danns

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Registered: 2006-02-12

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xorg7 xfce4 issues

I had some issues with XFCE4 after upgarding to xorg 7.  Xfce was very slow to start and would not quit without a hard kill (ctrl-alt-backspace).  I noticed an error regarding ICE Authentication when XFCE was starting and learned that it could not find iceauth which was hardcoded in xfce4 to /usr/X11R6/bin/iceauth.  I created a symlink to the new location /usr/bin/iceauth and all is working well now.  I suspect this will be fixed in the next release of xfce4.

emma

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 64

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

Actually, it is already fixed in Xfce4-svn.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

Are you using xfce4-session 4.2.3-2 ?

mindbreaker

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 20

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

jep same problem here with xfce 4.2.3-2

it takes a long time to start and shutdown the xfce session

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

pacman -Sy xfce4-session gives:

xfce4-session-4.2.3-1: is up to date

I'm using ftp.heanet.ie which was sync'd with ftp.archlinux.org on Tue Feb 21 02:03:00 2006, according to checkmirror.py

I will try and download -2 manually later to see if fixes the problem.

syd

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From: Auckland, NZ

Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 155

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

Try the svn version from shadowhands repo.

[shadowhand]
Server = http://archpkg.wgilk.com/shadowhand

I just installed it 1/2 hr ago and it is running great.

There doesnt seem to a vast improvements.
But it does include thunar!!!!!

polarrr

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Registered: 2004-09-12

Posts: 110

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

xfce4-svn gives me some problems now. xfce4 from extra repo works fine, but xfce4-svn is acting really wacky for me. For example, mouse cursor is big fat X, like the original X server cursor, plus right click on desktop doesn't work. So it seems like only parts of xfce4-svn are working for me. I don't know what the issue is, I tinkered around for a bit, but I couldn't figure out, so I just said screw it and now using stock xfce4 from extra. I think I'll leave it at that for now. It does the job, minus a few fancy stuff, but least it's stable. Hopefully things get gradually resolved soon.

*edit* Found it... I was missing libxdamage. Too many components to keep up with now  :?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

danns (or anyone else) - go svn if you want to, but there's no need if you just want to fix your iceauth problem. Just get hold of xfce4-session 4.2.3-2, as advised.

Re heanet (my local mirror) the package is actually there, but extra.db.tar.gz does not include it yet - that's why pacman does not know about it. Use the link above to download and install it.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

just run abs and rebuild xfce4-session...

drakosha

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Registered: 2006-01-03

Posts: 253

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Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

New issue.
After upgrading to xorg7 i have the following problem: XKB layout switcher does not display correct flag (i.e. flag is not relevant to current language). It used to work correctly before.
Situation now:
Real lang -> Icon
EN -> "PC"
RU -> American flag
HEBREW -> Russian Flag

Any ideas how to fix it?
My xorg conf:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Driver "keyboard"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,il"
        Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
        Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys,"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
EndSection

10x!

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: xorg7 xfce4 issues

I have the same problem. Already reported it as bug #4004 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4004)

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