On 04/16/2010 04:12 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Actually, I'm not sure if this is thanks to E17 itself or specific to Arch... And it's no big deal anyway because: A) e17 is "under heavy development", (And I know that means it's unstable) B) I've already got a workaround that works for me... But I'd like to understand what happened a little better.
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How can I a regular "Joe user", figure out if this is an actual E17 bug or if it's an Arch specific thing???
Joe, I'll have to check my E17 install on Arch, but I just got through going through fits with E17 on suse. All of a sudden, E17 virtual desktop management and the pager went nuts. If I opened an app on desktop 1 and then switched to desktop 2, etc.. the open app was visible on on desktops. (like you had the window set as sticky to show up on all desktops) Further, E17 would crash every time I tried to change shelf properties or add/remove apps from ibar, etc.. The issues ended up being something in my ~/.e directory. I hadn't changed any settings at all in E17 for quite some time, so one of the E17 updates did something strange to the config that really screwed E17 up. Wiping out my ~/.e directory and restarting with the default black & white theme cured it. After the restart and forced rebuild of the default configuration, I could reconfigure E17 exactly the way I had it before and it worked just fine. If you haven't tried it, it might be worth a shot. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com