xfdesktop woes

[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Hi,

Using XFCE 4.6.1 here on Gentoo based system for couple of days and
xfdesktop seems to cause some trouble for me:
 - now and then after system startup and logging into X session my
windows would lose decorations i.e. toolbar and window manager buttons,
 - several xfdesktop processes are spawned at log in - is this causing
blinking icons on he desktop?,
 - log in takes far more time then before the 4.6.1 upgrade,
 - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though

Let me say that I'm using X.Org X Server 1.6.3.901 (1.6.4 RC 1), that
needed that xcb and related stuff to be recompiled.

I've followed gentoo notes on this:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml
http://gnome.gentoo.org/howtos/gnome-2.26-upgrade.xml

Best regards,
Hinko

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[samuel verstraete]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
<snip>
>
> Best regards,
> Hinko

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[Mike Massonnet]

2009/11/6 samuel <samuel.verstraete@...>:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Hinko
>
> Your choice of subject content will greatly influence any help you
> will get on this mailinglist...

True? Well, I stopped reading after a while. Sorry, but guess this is
true. It also made me think about h**z.

I had recommened to do the following:
$ mv ~/.cache/session ~/.cache/sessions.bak
while you are logged out. This will get you started with a clean session.

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[Christoph Wickert-2]

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 17:00 +0100 schrieb Hinko Kocevar:

>  - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though

I guess you didn't have the libjpeg headers installed when you emerged
xfdesktop.

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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Mike Massonnet wrote:

> 2009/11/6 samuel <samuel.verstraete@...>:
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>> <snip>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Hinko
>> Your choice of subject content will greatly influence any help you
>> will get on this mailinglist...
>
> True? Well, I stopped reading after a while. Sorry, but guess this is
> true. It also made me think about h**z.
>

Sorry guys, I don't quite follow what the problem with subject is.. Is
there something is wrong I wrote??

> I had recommened to do the following:
> $ mv ~/.cache/session ~/.cache/sessions.bak
> while you are logged out. This will get you started with a clean session.

~/.cache/session does not exist on my system. There is ~/.cache/sessions
though. Anyways I do not have any saved session applications that were
started in order to affect the login - every now and then few terminals
are started but that is all.

Best regards,
Hinko

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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 17:00 +0100 schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
>
>>  - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>
> I guess you didn't have the libjpeg headers installed when you emerged
> xfdesktop.
>

The media-libs/jpeg library was installed.
Looking at the configure of xfdesktop when emerging it, jpg/jpeg is not
mentioned at all.

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[samuel verstraete]

http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#development

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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

samuel wrote:
> http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#development

My post was not meant to be disrespectful in any way.

I'm using Xfce from version 4.2 and like it very much. I merely tried to
point out, that in the past version(s) the problems I listed were not
present. I was not expecting that the developer in charge would start
debugging and solving the cases immediately - I was trying to get other
users feedback, if anyone else was experiencing the similar problem with
the same version. Maybe I needed to set some new settings, use different
approach, etc..

I'm also aware that OSS development takes time as most of the developers
are not paid for their work. And again I was not asking anyone to do
anything, I just pointed out few issues I was having with the certain
Xfce release.

In fact I was not even trying to get any special attention from any
developers as this is general (user?) discussion list, right? And yes
I'm aware that Xfce developers probably do read this mailing list too.

OTOH, looking at my post again, it's true I forgot to say in the end:

Has anyone experienced something similar?

And:

Thank you!


Anyways, I apologize if I offended anyone.

Best regards,
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[Mike Massonnet]

2009/11/9 Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...>:
> Mike Massonnet wrote:
>> I had recommened to do the following:
>> $ mv ~/.cache/session ~/.cache/sessions.bak
>> while you are logged out. This will get you started with a clean session.
>
> ~/.cache/session does not exist on my system. There is ~/.cache/sessions
> though. Anyways I do not have any saved session applications that were
> started in order to affect the login - every now and then few terminals
> are started but that is all.

Ah right, it's the one I had in mind. Did you try to delete/move it
(while logged out)? It could contain bad entries after all.

Regarding the mail subject, it doesn't identify what the problem is,
it just lets me think that xfdesktop is doing completely wrong... just
my opinion, but you could choose for better subjects.

> Best regards,
> Hinko

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[Vincent T]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@...> wrote:

Regarding the mail subject, it doesn't identify what the problem is,
it just lets me think that xfdesktop is doing completely wrong... just
my opinion, but you could choose for better subjects.

 

Could it be that "woes" is offensive? I did not interpret it as particularly offensive (i.e. I read it just as "problems with xfdesktop", and considering how multiple problems were mentioned I don't think the subject line left way for being more specific), but since English is not my native language, might it be that "woes" is not a great way of formulating it? (Also, I'm not sure whether I should've changed the subject line here already...)

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[Jannis Pohlmann-3]

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:00:07 +0100
Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:

> samuel wrote:
> > http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#development
>
> My post was not meant to be disrespectful in any way.
>
> I'm using Xfce from version 4.2 and like it very much. I merely tried
> to point out, that in the past version(s) the problems I listed were
> not present. I was not expecting that the developer in charge would
> start debugging and solving the cases immediately - I was trying to
> get other users feedback, if anyone else was experiencing the similar
> problem with the same version. Maybe I needed to set some new
> settings, use different approach, etc..

Guys, please stop making such an issue out of a not-so-well-chosen
subject line. It's the content that matters in the end. I think your
initial email was fine, especially so as this is the users mailing list.

Ok, back to the topic:

> - now and then after system startup and logging into X session my
> windows would lose decorations i.e. toolbar and window manager
> buttons,

This sounds like the window manager is crashing and is not restarted
for some reason. At least the window decorations are controlled *only*
by xfwm4. If they are gone, xfwm4 is not running. I'm not sure what you
mean by "toolbars". Those are usually part of the applications and are
unlikely to disappear for any reason.

> - several xfdesktop processes are spawned at log in - is this causing
> blinking icons on he desktop?,

There was a bug in xfdesktop or xfce4-sesession that caused some
applications (and xfdesktop in particular) to be started several (up to
a few dozen) times. I think that was fixed but I'm not sure the fix was
part of the 4.6.1 release. Brian?

> - log in takes far more time then before the 4.6.1 upgrade,

Hmm, not sure about this one. Again, we had a bug slowing the login
process down dramatically (took up to 20+ seconds on some machines). We
fixed that too, but I'd have to look at the revision log to check
*when* it was fixed.

> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though

As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
with xfdesktop itself.

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[Olivier Fourdan-3]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:
[...]
> My post was not meant to be disrespectful in any way.
[...]

It was not disrespectful at all

>
> Anyways, I apologize if I offended anyone.

No need, your post was just fine imho.

Cheers,
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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Vincent wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@...>wrote:
>
>> Regarding the mail subject, it doesn't identify what the problem is,
>> it just lets me think that xfdesktop is doing completely wrong... just
>> my opinion, but you could choose for better subjects.
>
>
> Could it be that "woes" is offensive? I did not interpret it as particularly
> offensive (i.e. I read it just as "problems with xfdesktop", and considering

I've opted for 'trouble' if looking at the dictionary. It was meant
solely in regard to previous versions where the problems did not occur.

> how multiple problems were mentioned I don't think the subject line left way
> for being more specific), but since English is not my native language, might
> it be that "woes" is not a great way of formulating it? (Also, I'm not sure
> whether I should've changed the subject line here already...)

English is not mine first language either.. So someone could interpret
'woe' as more aggressive: i.e. exclamation of grief, distress, or
lamentation (from the dictionary, where 'trouble' is also a description
of woe).

This tells me to be more careful when choosing wording on this mailing
list, especially for e-mail subjects.


Best regards,
Hinko

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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

>
> Ok, back to the topic:
>
>> - now and then after system startup and logging into X session my
>> windows would lose decorations i.e. toolbar and window manager
>> buttons,
>
> This sounds like the window manager is crashing and is not restarted
> for some reason. At least the window decorations are controlled *only*
> by xfwm4. If they are gone, xfwm4 is not running. I'm not sure what you
> mean by "toolbars". Those are usually part of the applications and are
> unlikely to disappear for any reason.

I can see this issue arising every now and then after the boot up. I'll
investigate in more detail and provide info on when it actually happens
and what processes are running.
'Toolbars' are the things controlled by the Window Manager -> Style ->
Theme :). Correct wording would probably be window decorations as you
put it.

>
>> - several xfdesktop processes are spawned at log in - is this causing
>> blinking icons on he desktop?,
>
> There was a bug in xfdesktop or xfce4-sesession that caused some
> applications (and xfdesktop in particular) to be started several (up to
> a few dozen) times. I think that was fixed but I'm not sure the fix was
> part of the 4.6.1 release. Brian?
>
>> - log in takes far more time then before the 4.6.1 upgrade,
>
> Hmm, not sure about this one. Again, we had a bug slowing the login
> process down dramatically (took up to 20+ seconds on some machines). We
> fixed that too, but I'd have to look at the revision log to check
> *when* it was fixed.
>

This was on the same machine that 4.4 release was running up to now, and
with that release I had no problem in logging in in ~5 - 7  seconds. I
think this might also be connected to the fact that several xfdesktop
processes are spawned when I try to log in.

>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>
> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
> with xfdesktop itself.

Looking at the USE flag in /etc/make.conf I see that jpeg is enabled
system wide. I have not changed the flags before emerging Xfce 4.6.1,
but I'll recompile the gtk+ anyways.
For gtk+ in particular I have following flags already enabled/disabled:

USE="cups jpeg -debug -doc -jpeg2k -test -tiff -vim-syntax -xinerama"

Hmm, maybe I should enable 'jpeg2k' flag also, that is currently disabled?
[-    ] jpeg2k - Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image
compression format

Thanks!

Best regards,
Hinko

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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Mike Massonnet wrote:

> 2009/11/9 Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...>:
>> Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>> I had recommened to do the following:
>>> $ mv ~/.cache/session ~/.cache/sessions.bak
>>> while you are logged out. This will get you started with a clean session.
>> ~/.cache/session does not exist on my system. There is ~/.cache/sessions
>> though. Anyways I do not have any saved session applications that were
>> started in order to affect the login - every now and then few terminals
>> are started but that is all.
>
> Ah right, it's the one I had in mind. Did you try to delete/move it
> (while logged out)? It could contain bad entries after all.

Yes. I have the practice of removing .config and .cache folder
completely when upgrading Xfce as I did this time. In the past I
experienced some weird issues after upgrades and removing old settings
mostly helped..

Should I mention that I have external monitor attached to my notebook
(the machine I'm talking about the whole time)? I don't see any major
difference when logging in with or without the external monitor, but
nevertheless..

Best regards,
Hinko


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[Markus Hoenicka]

Quoting Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...>:

> Should I mention that I have external monitor attached to my notebook
> (the machine I'm talking about the whole time)? I don't see any major
> difference when logging in with or without the external monitor, but
> nevertheless..
>

I don't know whether it is related, but I've experiencing problems  
with my Xfce desktop as well whenever I attach a data projector to it.  
Startup of Xfce takes ages, with a lot of flickering going on which I  
don't see otherwise. As a result, the resolution on my laptop and on  
the data projector are set incorrectly as X may attempt to set both at  
the same resolution, failing miserably. OpenOffice display is reduced  
to a pile of rubbish, with the menu entries set to font sizes of  
apparently 72 or so, leaving it entirely inoperable. BTW my laptop has  
a 1280x800 screen, whereas most data projectors use 1024x768. I  
suspect that these difficulties are in fact X.org, or video driver  
problems, which only indirectly affect Xfce startup.

These are just wild guesses as I'm not knowledgeable enough to debug this.

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[Brian J. Tarricone-3]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:29, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@...> wrote:

> There was a bug in xfdesktop or xfce4-sesession that caused some
> applications (and xfdesktop in particular) to be started several (up to
> a few dozen) times. I think that was fixed but I'm not sure the fix was
> part of the 4.6.1 release. Brian?

Not unless someone else fixed it.  Oddly, no one's been complaining
about it for some time, though.

>> - log in takes far more time then before the 4.6.1 upgrade,
>
> Hmm, not sure about this one. Again, we had a bug slowing the login
> process down dramatically (took up to 20+ seconds on some machines). We
> fixed that too, but I'd have to look at the revision log to check
> *when* it was fixed.

One problem related to slow login was fixed (xfce4-settings-helper
causing SM timeouts), but sometimes I still get a slow login too.
Haven't had a chance to look into it.

>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>
> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
> with xfdesktop itself.

Especially if this guy is on Gentoo like I believe he stated -- there
was recently a move from the years-long-stable libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
Likely the OP just didn't properly rebuild all reverse-dependencies.

     -brian
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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:29, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@...> wrote:
>>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
>> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
>> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
>> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
>> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
>> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
>> with xfdesktop itself.
>
> Especially if this guy is on Gentoo like I believe he stated -- there
> was recently a move from the years-long-stable libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
> Likely the OP just didn't properly rebuild all reverse-dependencies.
>

After adding jpeg2k support and rebuilding gtk+ I can load JPG files as
desktop images too.

Best regards,
Hinko

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[David Mohr-8]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:

> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:29, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@...> wrote:
>>>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>>>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>>> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
>>> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
>>> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
>>> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
>>> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
>>> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
>>> with xfdesktop itself.
>>
>> Especially if this guy is on Gentoo like I believe he stated -- there
>> was recently a move from the years-long-stable libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
>> Likely the OP just didn't properly rebuild all reverse-dependencies.
>>
>
> After adding jpeg2k support and rebuilding gtk+ I can load JPG files as
> desktop images too.

Just for completeness' sake, jpeg2k is a completely different file
format and has nothing to do with the regular jpeg images that I
assume you use as background images. So the fix would have been
recompiling, as Brian explained already..

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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

David Mohr wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> wrote:
>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:29, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@...> wrote:
>>>>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>>>>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>>>> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
>>>> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
>>>> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
>>>> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
>>>> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
>>>> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
>>>> with xfdesktop itself.
>>> Especially if this guy is on Gentoo like I believe he stated -- there
>>> was recently a move from the years-long-stable libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
>>> Likely the OP just didn't properly rebuild all reverse-dependencies.
>>>
>> After adding jpeg2k support and rebuilding gtk+ I can load JPG files as
>> desktop images too.
>
> Just for completeness' sake, jpeg2k is a completely different file
> format and has nothing to do with the regular jpeg images that I
> assume you use as background images. So the fix would have been
> recompiling, as Brian explained already..

You are right, I've removed the jpeg2k from the USE flags and recompiled
every package using jpeg library and I can still use the JPEG as
background. I needed to search for all the libs/apps depending on the
libjpeg6 and recompile, since the current JPEG library version is libjpeg7.

Thanks all!

Best regards,
Hinko

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