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No Keyboard with XFCE and DPup/Puppy Squeeze 009
Posted: Wed 06 Oct 2010, 20:44
by 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.
Posted: Thu 07 Oct 2010, 22:42
by steve_s
Ouch, 38 views and no answer yet...fingers crossed...any ideas?
Posted: Fri 08 Oct 2010, 23:22
by 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?
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 13:54
by 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...
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 14:32
by 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
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 15:40
by steve_s
dejan555 wrote: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
Sorry, dejan, I thought that one was just for the menu...ok...I just got your other one to work, and it works with the keyboard, but I think I'm going to reinstall using this one...thanks!
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 16:14
by 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:
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/usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-reboot:line5:[::integer expression expected
Ever seen that one, dejan?
But either way, your xfce full package is amazing and you should be quite proud of it...that menu looks awesome...
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 16:42
by 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.
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 16:54
by steve_s
dejan555 wrote: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.
What file do I edit to change the xfce shutdown options to Puppy's shutdown options?
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 17:02
by dejan555
Um, I guess the xdg menus file, I'm not really sure will try to setup this later.