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[steve_s]

Running on an HP laptop Pavilion N5470, frugal install of Puppy Squeeze/DPup 009.

I installed XFCE4 from package manager, dependencies and all.

Now I can boot into xfce4 or jwm, but I have no keyboard in either.

If I am out of X, I can use my keyboard just fine. As soon as I boot into X, no keyboard; I try typing in Abiword, terminal, nothing types at all.

Ideas on how to fix it? I have a feeling it is just a file that needs to be configured, but I have no idea which one it might be.

[steve_s]

Ouch, 38 views and no answer yet...fingers crossed...any ideas?

[steve_s]

Ok, I know I normally post a problem then solve it at least in part on my own then end up posting a huge long thread about what I did...but this one is a mystery to me. I really would like to add xfce to this Puppy version and use it on this lappy, as it is the only version (kdpup works on it, as it is a derivative of dpup) that I can get to work on it...really, anyone have any idea how to get xfce going on dpup? Is there a dpup with xfce on it already? Any ideas?

[steve_s]

Ok, gonna try installng from dejan's stuff on this thread and seeing if installing it that way will get it rather than from the package manager works...don't know why that would effect the keyboard, but...

[dejan555]

Steve I already gave you link in another thread for xfce package compiled on dpup 008 with all dependencies, sorry I haven't seen this thread yet.

Anyway, here's the package that should run just fine on 009:
xfce_full-4.6.2-i486-squeeze.pet

[steve_s]

[steve_s]

Well, we're closer.

The keyboard works great, no issues there...I'm posting with it now.

It looks great when I get xfce4 going...it won't do that at start up even though I've got the /etc/windowmanager set as startxfce4...that's annoying...

And when I want to restart it/shutdown, when I click on the logout menu option and then click restart I get this error then it goes out of X to command line where I have to type in reboot/poweroff:

[dejan555]

yeah well I took icon theme and xdg menus and stuff from mick's lupu package, and yes i know about the shutdown error should be replaced with puppy's shutdown options in menu instead xfce's. Don't know why it doesn't start on boot though will check that.

[steve_s]

[dejan555]

Um, I guess the xdg menus file, I'm not really sure will try to setup this later.