[SOLVED] Post-installation issues with XFCE

fettouhi · 2013-09-05 09:40:19

I just installed Arch Linux on an old eee-1000H laptop with XFCE and Slim as login manager. I have a few post-installlation issues I just can't find out how to fix.

1. I'm using pulseaudio with XFCE and I would like to have a tray icon in the panel to control the volume etc. I know that there is the audio mixer plugin but that doesn't log into pulseaudio. I then installed pasystray-git from AUR and that seems to work fine but I can't get it to autolaunch at login. When I add it to the launcher it seems to start but it isn't showing up in the tray. I have to launch it manually after login then it shows up. What am i doing wrong or is this a bug?

2. I'm using kalu to notifications about updates etc. and it works fine but I can't perform updates from the drop-down menu in kalu I get an error saying:

Parsing /etc/pacman.conf ... ok
Creating kalu_updater... ok
Initializing kalu_updater... failed
Error: Failed to initialize: Authorization from PolicyKit failed

similar issue trying to launch for example gparted:

[af@andre-eee1000h ~]$ gparted_polkit
Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found.

I have policykit installed and also policykit-gnome as well and it is running

[af@andre-eee1000h ~]$ ps x | grep polkit
2006 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep polkit

and my user is added to sudo because I can launch gparted with sudo gparted. So what am I missing?

Last edited by fettouhi (2014-10-02 08:41:41)

anonymous_user · 2013-09-05 17:41:15

Did you follow these steps to make sure polkit-gnome is launched under Xfce?:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … ion_agents

fettouhi · 2013-09-06 09:23:27

anonymous_user wrote:

Did you follow these steps to make sure polkit-gnome is launched under Xfce?:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … ion_agents

Thanks for the heads up I missread the discription for policyki-gnome initially but now it works. So issue 2 is fixed. Still can't get pasystray to up in the tray when I autolaunch it.

anonymous_user · 2013-09-06 13:54:48

Does pasystray have a .desktop file that you can copy to /etc/xdg/autostart/?

Also how are you starting xfce? If you use .xinitrc, you could trying launching it from there.

progandy · 2013-09-06 14:54:02

I am using volumeicon to control pulseaudio (in XFCE and now in i3 too). It can display and manipulate the master volume of current default device, and I set it to open pavucontrol as mixer.
The autostart was a bit difficult in XFCE, I don't know why. maybe try to run it as a shellscript and redirect stderr, stdout and stdin all to /dev/null. I had some problems with strange broken pipes crashing applications under XFCE when run with autostart.
By the way, pasystray is not meant to control the volume, only to manipulate the connections between devices and streams.

fettouhi · 2013-09-11 08:13:07

progandy wrote:

I am using volumeicon to control pulseaudio (in XFCE and now in i3 too). It can display and manipulate the master volume of current default device, and I set it to open pavucontrol as mixer.
The autostart was a bit difficult in XFCE, I don't know why. maybe try to run it as a shellscript and redirect stderr, stdout and stdin all to /dev/null. I had some problems with strange broken pipes crashing applications under XFCE when run with autostart.
By the way, pasystray is not meant to control the volume, only to manipulate the connections between devices and streams.

I tried using volumeicon as well and I can't it to autolaunch when xfce starts either.

MickeyRat · 2013-09-17 03:05:44

anonymous_user wrote:

Did you follow these steps to make sure polkit-gnome is launched under Xfce?:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … ion_agents

I had a problem with things that used to work with polkit and recently stopped working. I read this and tried it. It solved my problem. Thank you very much!!! That said, I'm puzzled because the file wasn't there before and polkit worked fine. Why?

anonymous_user · 2013-09-17 03:26:57

Previously polkit-gnome was set to autostart itself by installing the .desktop file to /etc/xdg/autostart/. This caused an issue with some DEs and the package was changed to no longer autostart polkit-gnome. You can read the bug here as well the polkit-gnome changelog.

MickeyRat · 2013-09-17 11:35:22

Thanks for the reply. Good to know and thanks again for the solution.

fettouhi · 2014-10-02 08:41:23

Got kalu working and volume control in the menu bar.

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#1 2013-09-05 09:40:19

[SOLVED] Post-installation issues with XFCE

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