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Offline BJF

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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #45 on: January 20, 2011, 05:16:36 PM »
Neal: Below is the content of my current fully functional SD install of 2010.10 /.config folder. Note that there is no /lxsession folder! My desktop install back home doesn't have one either. I'm a work, using passenger internet access at sea, and have logged the netbook into it to report. Sorry I don't have a screenshot facility. This install is essentially a replica of the "broken" install we have been discussing.

Content follows: 

/home/mdm/.config/.ooo3
/home/mdm/.config/autostart
/home/mdm/.config/bleachbit
/home/mdm/.config/deadbeef
/home/mdm/.config/enchant
/home/mdm/.config/gtk-2.0
/home/mdm/.config/leafpad
/home/mdm/.config/libfm
/home/mdm/.config/lxpanel
/home/mdm/.config/lxterminal
/home/mdm/.config/openbox
/home/mdm/.config/parcellite
/home/mdm/.config/pcmanfm
/home/mdm/.config/tmp
/home/mdm/.config/vlc
/home/mdm/.config/Trolltech.conf
/home/mdm/.config/user-dirs.dirs
/home/mdm/.config/user-dirs.locale

What is Trolltech???


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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #46 on: January 20, 2011, 05:25:44 PM »
Try reinstalling lxsession. And reboot.

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=Trolltech&btnG=Search

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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #47 on: January 20, 2011, 05:30:04 PM »
Quote from: BJF on January 20, 2011, 05:16:36 PM

What is Trolltech???


The QT library guys.
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #48 on: January 20, 2011, 06:32:45 PM »
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The QT library guys.

Just looked in Wicked-pedia. Thanks. OK, sometimes I'm slow but often I get there in the end. Think of me as the tortoise's ambulatorily-challenged sibling.

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Try reinstalling lxsession. And reboot.

Uh-oh. I am afraid, Obi-Wan. This install is working fine. The one that I abandoned, the one that does have the /.Config/lxsession folder, the one with all the woes that we're on topic over? Can't we stick to that? The current install, the one I made when the topic one broke, that's fine without /lxsession. Rock solid so far over 5-6 weeks. What would lxsession add to that? Or are you saying I should reinstall lxsession in the broke one... Having one seems to be optional to the workings of the beast.
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #49 on: January 21, 2011, 01:10:02 AM »
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Or are you saying I should reinstall lxsession in the broke one...

 ::) Of course! We are discussing how to fix it, are we not?

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The current install, the one I made when the topic one broke, that's fine...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #50 on: January 22, 2011, 02:18:48 PM »
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Did the reload of lxsession from Synaptic, rebooted, nothing changed. Still manic. My laptop (this NX9005 I'm writing from because the netbook is on charge) does have a /.config/lxsession/LXDE which looks very much like yours, BTW.
Because some of my machinery doesn't have a /lxsession folder and manages just fine, as an experiment I renamed the troublesome netbook SD install /lxsession to lxsession.old and rebooted. The desktop has reverted to the Avio default theme and is perfectly stable!
With my usual caution about not knowing of that which I speak, it does seem to me that having a /lxsession is an optional extra in some installs, and in some installs can find itself thrown into conflict with another file trying to do essentially the same function. My troublesome SD behaved for months until (heresay, I can't prove it) I did a routine update which altered something. For all I know the SD didn't have a /lxsession and the update wrote it one, let's say. And conflict began. Are you able to discover if the repo lxsession has been revised in the last couple of months?
In a spare moment I will substitute your desktop.conf file for the SD one and change the /lxsession/ folder back just to see what happens there. More soon.

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Offline Neal ManBear

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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #51 on: January 22, 2011, 02:23:48 PM »
No, lxsession has not been changed.
Possibilities: There is some fault in your SD. Or one of the changes you made affected your install, but without knowing what changes you made and what tools you used, I can not try to recreate the situation or find a solution.
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #52 on: January 22, 2011, 04:36:05 PM »
One doesn't, unfortunately, log the day-to-day trivial things in case they turn ugly later. This is looking like a shrug the shoulders and move on situation for my install. Come to think of it, I have. I now have a new install on a new slightly used SD without a /lxsession folder that is going just like it should. And now a happy old install with a renamed /lxsession folder on which to recustomise the desktop.
What this thread has left over then is my laptop's, and veronica and rogan's machines, that have their own personalities and configurations and have produced seemingly identical faults in response to something we might never trace. And my SD install quietly defying logic.  :-\
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #53 on: February 22, 2011, 01:05:59 PM »
Hi, just happened again to me with a fully updated system. Been working fine for weeks and then cursor  acceleration went back to old setting.
Fixed same as before so something strange is going on.
I suspect PCman as it has been doing some funny things like not seeing new files in directories where as Dolphin does.
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #54 on: February 22, 2011, 01:08:16 PM »
Try a reboot.
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #55 on: February 24, 2011, 02:34:13 PM »
Hi Neal, acceleration just went back to 20. I tried using LX Keyboard and mouse.
This changed acceleration fine.
I then rebooted and the problem has re-surface. It's like LXDE is not running just openbox?
I removed the offending config file and rebooted and the problem disappeared AND my acceleration was still okay at 10!
I am wondering if LX Keyboard and mouse produces a corrupt file?
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #56 on: February 24, 2011, 02:46:10 PM »
I've not had the problem here. I've not been able to reproduce it.
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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #57 on: February 24, 2011, 02:56:54 PM »
Very strange, I tried looking at the hex code for the file using okteta but it won't let me copy and paste so I cannot share it.
The format seems consistent though.

Interestingly enough I have found this

"Simply edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf with a text editor, and replace openbox with your favorite window manager. Note: In lxsession < 0.4.0 you need to edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/default instead. "
When I look at /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf i find the following with mouse acceleration set to 10 which is what it is running at... (We are running 0.4.4

"[Session]
window_manager=openbox-lxde

[GTK]
sNet/ThemeName=Clearlooks
sNet/IconThemeName=nuoveXT2
sGtk/FontName=Sans 10
iGtk/ToolbarStyle=3
iGtk/ButtonImages=1
iGtk/MenuImages=1
iGtk/CursorThemeSize=18
iXft/Antialias=1

[Mouse]
AccFactor=10
AccThreshold=10
LeftHanded=0

[Keyboard]
Delay=500
Interval=30"

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Re: LXDE Close, minimise, maximise plus timer
« Reply #58 on: March 07, 2011, 12:59:08 PM »
Stranger and stranger.
I did a suspend to ram and then when resumed the Close, minimise, maximise were missing from Thunderbird but not the other program.
I then tried running a KDE session and got the same!
Seems that an F11 and resizing will bring back icons but upon reboot I get the same problem.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
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