E17 is coming(part 6) [locked]

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

ppurka wrote:

dylan_stark · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:49 pm Post subject:

I'm having a very annoying problem with the focus when switching between the desktops. No window has focus, and I would like that window wich was last focused on desktop switch to get the focus back when I return to that desktop.
I know that there is an option in Window Focus that is suppose to do just that, but for some reason it is not working as expected.
Maybe some other option is turned on that is causing the trouble but I can't figure out wich one...

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

dylan_stark · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

I've installed ecomorph now, and I have exactly the same problem.

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

I cannot load certain modules anymore, that is drawer ( which is installed ) and above all wallpaper and wallpaper2.
Those modules seem to have vanished . Has module wallpaper been removed?

When I have places loaded and I connect a usb device to the box ( say a digital camera or the iphone ) e17 crashes and all
modules get unloaded on restart ( recover ).

There are so many problems here that I cannot imagine trying ecomorph or even compositing again.

Poedel · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

Recovering styles is often hard work or almost impossible.
Preventing this you should backup your .e folder to be able to copy it back when e17 crashes.
Remeber alfa state

It definetly sometimes does, espeicially when you change settings or try to undrrun system set states.

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

There has been some extensive changes recently. I would suggest that you try an older svn revision possibly from a week ago.
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EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

ppurka wrote:

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Went down from 41111 to 41042 with your help, ppurka. Modules compiled fine except for
e_module-uptime ( compile failed ).

Is it possible that I have to delete the current .e/? The modules I want still cannot be loaded; same error message.

41042 was from Sun, June 14th .

I now have to quickpkg as you recommended; only question is do I quickpkg just enlightenment-9999 or
the other packages as well like evas eet eina etc.?

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

I have compiled all?

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

On a hunch I just ran revdep-rebuild although I didn` t believe it would fix broken links for
packages in overlay as well, but it did, respectively it tried.

I` ve had a lot there and modules themes, wallpaper and drawer get loaded again. I' m not sure
whether the newly reemerged packages match the revision 41042 and there was imlib2_loaders-9999
among them as well.

The only package that failed to emerge was exhibit-9999 with svn: target path does not exist. I am almost certain
that I may encounter problems. The old repository was exhibit@40903 .

May be the punishment will follow swiftly on an enlightenment restart.
For now the "missing" modules work again.

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

I am pretty sure revdep-rebuild built only the latest revision

Since you are re-installing all the packages, including the external modules, the package list should contain more items:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

ppurka wrote:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Today is a good day as it is the first time in weeks that I successfully updated E17 on my system ( 41283 now ), all wanted modules included.
Thank you very much for the great work to the enlightenment devs :lol:

All previous attempts failed and the first package that blew was always evas. Each time I had to revert to a working config like ppurka taught me.

I don' t know why this run went well. It may be excellent bug fixes by the devs. But I changed a USE flag because one
message shortly before the compilation failure of evas caught my eye. I cannot make anything of it but it had s.th.
to do with directfb. It always had something to do with directfb.
So I set

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

This is my evas:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

I am glad that setting

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

this probably won't be easy to describe but I'm having a very annoying problem with e17 and a couple desktop files.

ibar has the proper user-assigned icon but every time I start the app the titlebar uses the application default (this isn't an issue of user/e17/app-defined; my *desktop icon doesn't even appear in "border style").

I have a csh script which is essentially "vboxsdl -vm $argv[1]" so I can run 3 different vms from one script. I have 3 identical *desktop files to start them with the exceptions that each has its own icon and passes a different $argv[1] to the script. I created these 3 *desktop files originally for vmware, they always worked 100% fine so theoretically they should be working just as well now.

I installed virtualbox, changed "vmware" to the vbox cmd and renamed the *desktop files - so they're virtually identical to what worked before. this is a new install of e and ~/.e so it's not a matter of some crud in an old e cfg gumming things up.

every time I start from ibar, the titlebar uses an ugly default icon; when I click "create icon -> adv", the "desktop file" has a filename which does not exist which seems to be based on "startupwmclass". when I rmb the ibar icon and look at properties it has the correct *desktop filename; when I start the app it does not.

the "desktop file" field is uneditable so I can't change it. I can't create or let e17 create the non-existent *desktop and get the titlebar icon working that way because 1) I couldn't start the other two vms from that single desktop file and 2) I can't have unique icons using a single desktop file. their icons are important because when minimized it's the only way I know which vm is which without having to restore to see.

so if anyone can follow that

any idea how to fix this? I included a picture if it helps; e17 is essentially changing things once the desktop file has been started (the changed one is the left and what I created is the right).

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3699/tmpdts.png

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

Not sure how much I can help here.

First of all you need to ensure that the Window Class field is not empty, since the icon is determined via the window class. If you want different icons, then the applications must provide a different window class to the WM (e17). Most terminals allow you to set the window class (via -name argument), but I doubt that virtualbox will allow you to do that.

There used to be a X-Enlightenment-Icon or something similar which was supported and read by the e17 WM. It was possible to set animated icons or even other icons via that argument in the .desktop file. You should probably search the e17 wiki at enlightenment.org or make a post to the e17 users mailing list to find out if you can set different icons for different commands, even when the different applications have the same Window Class.

FYI, I think it is ecore which takes care of these .desktop icon, etc. So, you could look into ecore source to see if you can glean some information.

EDIT: I was wrong. The .desktops are handled by efreet and not ecore.
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Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

I just got a new keyboard and I am having a weird problem. In E17 some of my keyboard shortcuts that use Super_L(Left Windows key) so not work. The same shortcuts work fine with Super_R work just fine. Some of my shortcuts do not seem to be affected at all. I can't figure out what the problem is at all. Simply resetting the keybindings does not seem to work.

In addition to the above problem I have noticed that I cannot drag windows between desktops unless I do it through the pager. I have tried resetting the appropriate options to no effect. I also seem to be missing the theme switcher module as well which is odd to say the least.

Any ideas on how I can fix these problems?
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ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

Ok the theme switcher is behaving now but I am still having that keyboard problem. Upon further investigation I have come to the conclusion that the keyboard itself is faulty. As the problem persists even on windows. It seems not to register things like win+e or win+r....This is pissing me off quite a bit.
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Wa ga ichigeki wa mutekinari.

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