Upgrade broke display

Edscott Wilson García edscott at imp.mx
Fri Apr 19 03:02:55 CEST 2002


On Jue 18 Abr 2002 20:40, Ing. Rafael de" Jesús Fernández "M. wrote:
> There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding xfce_setup and
> xfce_upgrade. Isn't it possible to check the current version before
> starting xfce? (that would eliminate the upgrade controversy).

My guess is that something will be done in xfce4.

>
> The setup... hmmm... if invoked and no ~/.xfce is present, create it...

This is done if you use "startxfce" to enter your xfce session. And if also if 
you start xftree and no  ~/.xfce is present. It probably should be done for 
all xfce programs which use ~/.xfce.

Edscott


>
> not sure if it's an easy way to implement it, I'm new to xfce and I
> haven't gotten used to the code yet.
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 18:41, Joe Klemmer wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 19:15, Rich Shepard wrote:
>     >   I just upgraded from 3.3.7 to 3.8.16 by rebuilding the .src.rpm.
>     > Had to tell rpm to ignore the falacious report that xscreensaver was
>     > missing, because it's there (even if I don't use it).
>     >
>     >   Anyway, I no longer have my backdrop displaying, the buttons on the
>     > task bar are all the same color, and bringing up the pallette doesn't
>     > seem to have any effect on the displayed colors.
>     >
>     >   Also, there was no longer any ~/.xfbdrc, so I moved the old one
>     > back. I see now that it wants a non-dot file in the new ~/.xfce, but
>     > ... the file format has changed and the package manager didn't
>     > upgrade that during the Freshen.
>     >
>     >   Suggestions and help solicitied.
>
>     	Did you run xfce_upgrade as the user you log into?
>
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