4.10 No Trash, No Removable Devices Icons

[Bob Snyder]

On 05/04/2012 09:30 AM, Bob Snyder wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 08:23 AM, Ahau @porteus.org wrote:
>> Hmm, just to clarify, is the problem simply broken/missing icons, or
>> is your trash not working at all, and automounting fails?
>>
>> On 5/4/12, Ahau @porteus.org<ajax.criterion at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> I maintain XFCE for Porteus, which is a slackware-based live
>>> distribution.  I'm using a modified version of rworkman's build
>>> scripts for 4.8 in order to build 4.10.
>>>
>>> See this link, especially the Notes file:
>>>
>>> http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkman/xfce-4.8/
>>>
>>> Have you installed all of the dependencies included there and built
>>> your packages in that order?  I'm wondering if perhaps you intalled
>>> gvfs after you compiled thunar&  friends, or if you've left out some
>>> other dependencies...
>>>
>>> I can supply txz's and/or build scripts if you like.
>>>
>>> On 5/4/12, Bob Snyder<bob.snyder at cox.net>  wrote:
>>>> I have recently installed Xfce 4.10, built from the tarballs, on my
>>>> Slackware 13.37 system, and it works very well, however I have no 
>>>> Trash
>>>> nor Removable Devices icons on the desktop although they are 
>>>> enabled in
>>>> Desktop Settings. When I install a trash panel plugin I get the red
>>>> circle with the white bar.
>>>>
>>>> I have installed gvfs (from sbopkg) and it appears to work, at 
>>>> least the
>>>> gvfs apps (gvfs-tree, etc.) seem to work, but I don't know if it is
>>>> working properly.
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Bob S.
>
> Hi Ahau,
>
> No not an icon problem (using Tango). Automount also doesn't work.
>
> I may have installed gvfs after building Thunar and thunar-volman so I 
> rebuilt and reinstalled them but no improvement. I also went over the 
> build order list on Robby Workman's site and had all but a few 
> installed. I installed those from sbopkg except gnome-disk-utility 
> which isn't available there. If you have a txz for that it would help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob S.

Update: I have built and installed gnome-disk-utility then rebuilt 
Thunar and thunar-volman but still no joy. Are there other pieces of 
Xfce that need to be rebuilt?

Bob S.