Salix Xfce 14.0RC1

[gapan]

mimosa, are you running gmountman under xfce or xmonad? If you're running it under xmonad you probably need to start it with dbus-launch (either gmountman or preferably xmonad itself).

[mimosa]

As it happens, I am running it under xmonad

... and it is conceivable that the problems I reported earlier coincided with when I was packaging another WM.

To call xmonad using dbus-launch, do I just put in the xmonad.desktop file in xsessions

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/usr/bin/dbus-launch xmonad

instead of

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/usr/bin/xmonad

(Or if not using xdm/gdm, accordingly in xinitrc)

?

EDIT

I can confirm that works and solves the problem with gmountman

[gapan]

mimosa, look in the xinitrc.pekwm file for an example. The xmonad.desktop file could just launch the xinitrc file then.

[mimosa]

Indeed, the xmonad at src comes with its own xinitrc that looks similar:

http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.0 ... trc.xmonad

I haven't generally used .xinitrc in the standard way with multiple WM setups. In this case (xfce +xmonad) I assume there's no conflict (that xfce doesn't use .xinitrc when called from the login screen). Where there is a conflict, in the past I have written a wrapper for each WM to copy xinitrc.{WM} over .xinitrc then do startx. I'm sure that's not the proper way to do it, even when not using gdm/xdm.

In this case, would there be anything wrong with having the .desktop file just call

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/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xmonad

or copying it to ~/ and

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/home/{user}/.xinitrc.xmonad

?

I think this time round (when 14.0 is released) I'll try and set things up more tidily: with Ratpoison as the default, but booting into runlevel four and offering a choice of WMs. I generally use Openbox if I want to use a conventional WM, and in the past, it had its own partition (now displaced by Salix x86_64 RC1); but there's really no need for that.

[gapan]

In this case, would there be anything wrong with having the .desktop file just call

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/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xmonad

Nothing wrong with that, as long as it works.

[gapan]

Parole media player also doesn't play DVDs!

I have tried one DVD and it played fine. Then I tried another and had the same problem. Both play fine in 13.37. I don't know why. If anyone has any idea go ahead and say it.

[mimosa]

Maybe the DVD that won't play requires some different codec.

[steepleone]

Parole media player also doesn't play DVDs!

I have tried one DVD and it played fine. Then I tried another and had the same problem. Both play fine in 13.37. I don't know why. If anyone has any idea go ahead and say it.

After installing vlc and using parole I managed to read a music DVD without any difficulty!

[Jonny]

I see that RC2 is up at:

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/files/14.0/salix-xfce-14.0RC2.iso/download

(Sorry, the forum won't let me post links yet)

Is this safe to try?

[gapan]

I see that RC2 is up at:

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/files/14.0/salix-xfce-14.0RC1.iso/download

(Sorry, the forum won't let me post links yet)

Is this safe to try?

Yes, an announcement will be made shortly.