On 05/13/13 08:15, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2013 00:53:17 +0200, Whiskers
<catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The blank screen I first reported in January with Linux-3.7.3-1-i686
seems
to have been cured by the latest update to Linux-3.9.2-1-i686 (and/or
other updates that have happened at the same time). (Using the nouveau
graphics driver).
But the desktop and mouse settings in XFCe4 aren't all working.
Are you sure that this is caused by the kernel and/or graphics driver?
I'm a Xfce only user for a long time and experience it as a PITA. If I
would know another DE, that would be similar near to the wanted work
flow and that would be less odd, I would switch the DE.
It's "normal" that lot of options are broken and reporting them to
upstream as a bug, only does lead to flame.
However, what exactly doesn't work? The default buttons and wheel
settings should work as expected. Even while there's lot of very bad
code for desktop stuff, a lot of, if not all default settings should
work as expected. Customized settings at least often need to be
manually restored after package updates.
The latest updates for Xfce on Arch where annoying, I e.g. had to
switch from a .svg to a .png for the menu icon, because the .svg I
used for a long time, can't be used anymore. But there are also very
serious issues, I for example had to remove gvfs, because it does make
external drives spin down and up again and again. The menu is a
complete mess and it can't be fixed with Alacarte or other menu
editors, it only can be done without such a tool.
FWIW, I'm using the open source ATI and the kernel-rt from AUR on 64
bit architecture. Sometimes I use a NVIDIA on the same machine and
experienced the nouveau driver as better working, unfortunately the
graphics can have impact to real-time audio abilities so I sometimes
prefer to use an ATI.
I've got a mobility radeon (rv620) chip and I've had a ton of problems
with xfce. I was not using any login manager and xfce was always
crashing the X session and getting me to tty, it was horrible (far from
stable IMHO).
@Whiskers maybe custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ profiles could help you
with mouse/keyboard issues, i have to do it once in a chromium OS
laptop and it solved the issues just fine. I felt more comfortable with
lxde/openbox i found it more solid than xfce.
