From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 14 07:08:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4518106566C for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB51B8FC0A for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from [10.0.10.6] ([202.69.174.108]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:08:31 -0700 Message-ID: <49BB57EF.2060303@a1poweruser.com> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:08:31 +0800 From: Fbsd1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: weif@weif.net References: <20090313154130.3D96EA26DB@maxine.cjones.org> <49BA87D5.3080000@gmail.com> <20090313204825.E64BCA2718@maxine.cjones.org> <49BACEF0.8070905@gmail.com> <20090313223308.3B98CA2723@maxine.cjones.org> <49BAE3C0.9090000@gmail.com> <20090314043421.12C61A24F7@maxine.cjones.org> <49BB4762.7020405@a1poweruser.com> <20090314064658.1F188A25F3@maxine.cjones.org> In-Reply-To: <20090314064658.1F188A25F3@maxine.cjones.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2009 07:08:31.0864 (UTC) FILETIME=[AEDC5780:01C9A473] X-Sender: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sonic2000gr@gmail.com Subject: Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:08:35 -0000 Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in >> 7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add >> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off" statement as last line in "ServerLayout" >> section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf will >> build you one. By the way i used the package version of xfce4 on 7.1 >> and it's working just fine after i added the above xorg fixes. > > That line was already in xorg.conf (it was necessary to get a mouse to > work after the last xorg update in January). However, I did not have > it as the last line in the ServerLayout section. I moved it to the > last line, but that didn't make a difference. > > There's still no XFCE menu, and without the ability to update the > settings in XFCE, it's pretty much unusable... > > Keith > > As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and the xorg and xfce packages.