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SERGIO_372
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 Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 4:15 pm Post subject: Can't access Nautilus trash bin |
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| Hi there! I've been using Gentoo as my main OS for a couple of days by now, in the meantime, I was able to make really good progress. But there is a small bug that is annoying me. Is that when I tried to access the trash it gives me the following error "This location could not be displayed. Sorry, could not display all the contents of trash:///: the specified operation is not supported." So to purge my deleted files I was just going to .local/share/Trash and using rm -rf * but this is not the "right" way to fix it. I'm not using Gnome as my DE just nautilus as a file manager |
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Banana
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SERGIO_372
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Banana wrote: | Hello SERGIO_372.
What is your DE? |
I'm just using i3wm |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Most of the Mate/Gnome stuff uses dbus and gnome keyring and various RedHat specific interfaces.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the mate=panel works on openbox. Except for the logout/reboot/shutdown buttons. Delving into the code (yuck! i need a bath!) I found that the buttons send messages (via DBus ?) to mate-session to tell it to do the action. Some googling revealed that for openbox all that is needed is to launch "openbox --exit" or "openbox --reboot" et cetera. That does work. I've tried it from a terminal shell. I'm considering forking the code and just patching that. But, I suspect the menu can't be updated without gconf and mate-session so you might as well run Mate directly. |
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SERGIO_372
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony0945 wrote: | Most of the Mate/Gnome stuff uses dbus and gnome keyring and various RedHat specific interfaces.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the mate=panel works on openbox. Except for the logout/reboot/shutdown buttons. Delving into the code (yuck! i need a bath!) I found that the buttons send messages (via DBus ?) to mate-session to tell it to do the action. Some googling revealed that for openbox all that is needed is to launch "openbox --exit" or "openbox --reboot" et cetera. That does work. I've tried it from a terminal shell. I'm considering forking the code and just patching that. But, I suspect the menu can't be updated without gconf and mate-session so you might as well run Mate directly. |
Sorry I didn't get it. I'm not using Mate nether Openbox |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| SERGIO_372 wrote: | | Sorry I didn't get it. I'm not using Mate nether Openbox |
I've been using Mate for years but considering switching to Openbox. It's lighter and quicker. What do you use? Or do you launch applications directly with atarx? |
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SERGIO_372
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony0945 wrote: | | SERGIO_372 wrote: | | Sorry I didn't get it. I'm not using Mate nether Openbox |
I've been using Mate for years but considering switching to Openbox. It's lighter and quicker. What do you use? Or do you launch applications directly with atarx? |
I use rofi to launch my applications. Never used Openbox as WM but I'm very satisfied with i3 (easy to customize and use). Maybe someday I will get out of my comfort zone and experience something else. |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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Nautilus is really intended for gnome. I'm betting it's sending some message to D-bus that never gets answered because the target doesn't exist.
The picture I get from reading descriptions of D-BUS is that it was invented so that messages could be sent and later picked up by another program that may not have have been running yet.
If that is correct, I agree with those (I haven't seen them lately) that say D-BUS is a band-aid put on poor system design instead of fixing the design errors. I'll admit that design errors, high level design errors, are much harder to fix than coding errors, but generally not as hard as specification errors (solving the wrong problem versus using the wrong algorithm vs bad implementation of the algorithm). |
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Leio
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trash:// virtual filesystem for nautilus (and any other gtk app) is provided by the gnome-base/gvfs package.
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SERGIO_372
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| Tony0945 wrote: | | Nautilus is really intended for gnome. I'm betting it's sending some message to D-bus that never gets answered because the target doesn't exist. |
Maybe.
| Leio wrote: | | trash:// virtual filesystem for nautilus (and any other gtk app) is provided by the gnome-base/gvfs package. |
Was already installed. I even try to reinstall and review the use flags to see if I was not missing something but still didn't work. |
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Leio
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| SERGIO_372 wrote: | | (gvfs) Was already installed. I even try to reinstall and review the use flags to see if I was not missing something but still didn't work. |
As alluded by others, you may need a working dbus session bus. I believe it would get started automatically on X startup if dbus is installed, BUT NOT if you have a ~/.xinitrc file, as then it assumes you want to take care of these manually. If you don't, trash:// probably won't work.
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