Xfconf troubles

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:10:57 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
wrote:

> Am Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:39:39 +0200
> schrieb Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > yesterday I compiled the latest SVN version of Xfce (include xfconf
> > and xfce4-settings) but didn't restart Xfce.
> > 
> > So, as I booted my system today, it made Boom and I got the changes.
> > The changes mean that I lost most my settings for xfdesktop and the
> > whole UI stuff.
> > 
> > I had to reconfigure my GTK theme, icon theme, xfdesktop config and
> > similar. Most of these weren't a problem except for two things:
> > a) I ended up with scary fonts...I'm not able to make the fonts look
> > like before. This is really, really annoying and hard to describe
> > but my system looks ugly. I already tried all the fonts I've
> > installed here (which didn't change lately, so I have the same
> > installed as before). And I tried various hinting settings. All
> > without any noticeable success.
> > 
> > Then I tried to play with setting a custom DPI value, as default 96
> > was displayed but it wasn't active. I activated the checkbox and
> > decreased the value, this caused even more strange UI effects and
> > finally killed all my terminals and didn't let me restart it until I
> > restarted my whole X server.
> 
> Hm. And you did have xfsettingsd and xfce4-settings-helper running?

Only xfsettingsd, don't know how it was started, I didn't do it.
This is what I recently told Stephan, testing of all these is hard for
users as long as nobody has a clue how it works or how it is supposed
to work. Some basic usage instructions would be quite helpful. Maybe
this had prevented some of my troubles.
Just an idea.

> > The settings dialog for xfdesktop didn't allow me to add a custom
> > wallpaper. It provided a list of installed wallpapers but the little
> > "+" (plus) button for adding other files is insensitive.
> > Furthermore, IMO this button should be a real GTK stock button
> > including the text "Add" not only the icon.
> 
> AFAIK, the wallpaper settings are just not finished yet.

Ok, not a big deal, just wanted to mention it.

> > Finally, I found this message in the logs which may be related to
> > all my problems with the new xfconf stuff which was just
> > disappointing and frustrating so far (it kept me successfully from
> > being productive instead I still fiddle around with these weird
> > font settings :( ).
> > 
> > ** (xfce4-session:3092): WARNING **: Unable to launch
> > "/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/share/xfce4/xfconf-migration/xfdesktop-xfconf-migration.pl" (specified
> > by autostart/xfconf-xfdesktop-migration-4.6.desktop): Kindprozess
> > »/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/share/xfce4/xfconf-migration/xfdesktop-xfconf-migration.pl«
> > konnte nicht ausgeführt werden (Keine Berechtigung)
> 
> Maybe start the script by hand and see what its output is?

I did as I told in my first post:
"Then I chmod'ed this file with 'chmod +x' to give it the executable bit
and ran it, and according to the output it worked but nothing has
changed."

Output is attached.


Regards,
Enrico

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