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darkreaper476

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Registered: 2010-05-17

Posts: 102

Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

I did a fresh install of Enlightenment, as I like to give it a run every now and then. And now its acting like Gnome 3, but only with Chromium. When open Chromium I get the "file edit view..." BS show up in my shelf! But there is no module for this. It is rather annoying and I assume my install of gnome has something to do with it.

Screen shot= http://i.imgur.com/haG4lGX.png

any help to get rid of this would be fantastic. Thanks!

drtebi

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Registered: 2013-02-09

Posts: 148

Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

As far as I know, there is a module that does that for you. I am surprised it is enabled by default though.

Anyway, you should check here:

Enlightenment -> Settings -> Extensions -> Modules

Look for "Application Menu", which is on the first tab, the "Utilities" tab. Select it, and click on "Unload". Now it should be gone.

Hopefully that helped.

darkreaper476

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Registered: 2010-05-17

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Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

Thanks for the reply, I didn't find any modules that were unfamiliar.. That said this particular version of Enlightenment seems a bit more unstable and I have already switched... Can never find "the one". LOL Can't wait for another more stable version.

drtebi

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Registered: 2013-02-09

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Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

You should try again...

I just re-installed my entire Arch Linux system, and am running the latest Enlightenment e19 (from the official packages) since about three weeks now, and it has been very stable.

I also used the System Tray module, and put it into my main shelf. I used it together with cryptkeeper and it works just fine.

Enlightenment is in my opinion a very much overlooked desktop environment, I have been running it since four years (first e17, now e19) and personally find it much better than Gnome, Unity or Xfce4. I like KDE4, but it is very "resource-hungry". Enlightenment is also the only desktop environment that I was able to properly configure to do a xinerama view over four monitors (Enlightenment has a "xinerama" startup switch).

I encourage you to try again

darkreaper476

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Registered: 2010-05-17

Posts: 102

Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

As much as I should I REALLY don't want to re install..  I have so many little issues now its getting crazy. You would think that you never have to re install a rolling release distro...

I completely agree with you about enlightenment, and KDE for that matter, as it is what I used for months until something happened and all of KDE became slow for no reason... I have the same problems with various version of Enlightenment too, sometimes its stupid fast and feels like composting is off, and other times I feel like I'm running KDE on a netbook, when I have an i7 and GTX680m.... 

Never got xinerama to work (I don't think) but Enlightenment definitely handles multiple monitors better that anything else! 3 Screens and 4 desktops EACH!! Love it!

EDIT:

Just logged into Enlightenment again, and it seems the chromium issue went away, 3 minutes in it crashed but recovered fine. lol That all said I'll try and stick with it for a while again. Any idea one these issues:
1. Clicking File links in things like Terminology opens Easytag instead of an actual file manager. (all DE's)
2. task bar uses Adblocks icon as the icon for Chromium, very annoying. lol

Thanks again, I hope I can be (E)ntertained by Enlightenment again.    /badpun

Last edited by darkreaper476 (2015-01-19 03:42:32)

drtebi

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Registered: 2013-02-09

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Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

As much as I should I REALLY don't want to re install..  I have so many little issues now its getting crazy. You would think that you never have to re install a rolling release distro...

In the best case scenario, you should never have to; however, you also should always make backups. I use Clonezilla which is free and works every time. It may seem complicated at first, but it really isn't.
So before I make a major update now (e.g. sudo pacman -Suy), I simply create a disk image with Clonezilla. If during updating something went wrong, I try to fix it, but if I just can't figure it out--I can always use Clonezilla to restore the backup image.

Never got xinerama to work (I don't think) but Enlightenment definitely handles multiple monitors better that anything else! 3 Screens and 4 desktops EACH!! Love it!

I have only ever used AMD based cards, so I cannot guarantee that Enlightenment's xinerama option will work with an NVidia card. But you can always post your xorg.conf file (should be in /etc/X11/ somewhere) and ask for help here.
I wonder though if you really want a xinerama mode... it would e.g. maximize a window over all three monitors. If they are side-by-side, I wonder if that is really helpful?

1. Clicking File links in things like Terminology opens Easytag instead of an actual file manager. (all DE's)

Are you saying Easytag opens every file? That would be wrong. However, clicking a file in Terminology should open the associated application. Maybe you have to explain this problem in more detail.

2. task bar uses Adblocks icon as the icon for Chromium, very annoying. lol

Look for this file: `/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop` and open it in a text editor.
Check what is set for Icon. It's somewhere in between all the "Name" and "Comment" variables. It should be ICON=chromium

You can also do it through Enlightenment, although I am not sure if it's permanent. Right-click on the title bar or task bar (wherever the offending icon appears) and choose "Chromium -> Edit Icon". In the dialog that pops up, go to the "Icon" tab and click on the big icon button. This will open Enlightenment's file chooser, from there you can browse your file system to choose an icon.
One possible location for the chromium icon is here: `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/chromium.png`

Thanks again, I hope I can be (E)ntertained by Enlightenment again.    /badpun

darkreaper476

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Registered: 2010-05-17

Posts: 102

Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

I've used clonezilla before, and other imaging software, problem is storage, I never give /home its own partition and I have a lot of crap... I know, I know... So making an image of entire partition is a no go... I also try to update when ever I can. I don't often get time on my computer I sometimes go months. So when I do get time to tinker, I update, I figure if an update creates an issue, others will have the same problem and be able to fix it. I have pretty common hardware still..

nvidia just handles multi monitors. I can make a window span all 3 monitors if I want. hmm. lol Non issue.

Just tweaked the default applications setting, it seemed to have fix the easytag thing. Basically my system thought easytag was my default file browser. lol Weird how it effected Cinnamon as well. I wonder if changing it in E fixed it in other DEs. hmm

Any way to change keyboard repeat delay and speed on E?

Thanks!

As for the adblock icon, it seems random. Right now I have nice chromium icon. I'll keep my eye on that line for when it changes.

drtebi

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Registered: 2013-02-09

Posts: 148

Re: Weird issue with Enlightenment and Chromium

Any way to change keyboard repeat delay and speed on E?

Interestingly, there seems to be no configuration menu for that. But you can do it from the command line,  check the wiki here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … y_and_rate

It should be a system-wide setting in X, as opposed to a DE setting. As far as I know, other DE's will provide a menu to set it, but then actually set the value in X accordingly.