From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 15 22:12:23 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 72D04106568C for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:12:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f166.google.com (mail-ew0-f166.google.com [209.85.219.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA32A8FC1B for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so3413287ewy.43 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:12:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KEaJRl7SWufKw7FsUNqLlxBt4aPfbbnn+Nit2Z/AlWY=; b=WK8hDvdWst4MkH7T8mGvkti9OhmD++eI3PWWLC+62LhLQMgpUDIs2oxI1+R/Guwo2w gjqls0gUUmHxUVDYVxY3j5NBke1ZXLDwS/rDBuRv0U099SgqIcsJnTpJJvnIEhAij27K cJNDBHMT5+YohzFX+vWHVtLQJqJkBIGmnFgXQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tIERVVMBE3G92CLv+NA83+xpygbie7sZAnUZZ0UCQiwfbBwGFJzq2Wx+IzbIl+KiLH NP2V+ZdySJotGqiWlPmrbJPnqCk1JhlAy+Q1lU/unQmMXVZasSk2neqA/xyNFdWf+2Ab DMDT5+OpyZzN83p+QI40sghKOswXNwsdB3kbg= Received: by 10.210.144.8 with SMTP id r8mr2977046ebd.28.1237155140067; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org (athedsl-4466718.home.otenet.gr [94.71.104.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm4925458eyg.57.2009.03.15.15.12.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49BD7D40.2080609@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:12:16 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081011) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: weif@weif.net References: <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> <49BB57EF.2060303@a1poweruser.com> <20090314214353.54DFEA2786@maxine.cjones.org> <20090314215625.GA72097@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20090315212730.A1E47A240F@maxine.cjones.org> In-Reply-To: <20090315212730.A1E47A240F@maxine.cjones.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" 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: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:12:24 -0000 Keith Seyffarth wrote: > Well, I finally got XORG to install again, and then installed XFCE > 4.6. Still no menus, and huge screen resolution. However, > Ctl-Alt-[Keypad Minus] will zoom in on part of the desktop area, > making text at least readable on screen. > > Any other suggestions on getting XFCE to have its menu again? Or on > just manually a) launching the settings manager, or b) editing the > settings manually? > > You could try hitting ALT+F2 and typing xfce4-settings-manager or xfce4-settings-editor to run these. As for the screen resolution, I upgraded one more machine today and it went down to 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024. This was the only machine I had had in the past to adjust resolution by using XFCE's display applet. Every other machine would start directly at the correct resolution. In the previous XFCE version, the Display applet would correctly set this, but not in 4.6. Although the correct resolution was selectable, it just resulted to a blank screen. Finally, I used xrandr to adjust the resolution. This maybe of some help to you as well: Open an Xterm or Terminal and type: xrandr You should see a list of modes. Select the desired one from the list and count from the top, starting with zero. For example, to select the third resolution from the list, type: xrandr -s 2 If this works correctly, add xrandr -s 2 & in your .xinitrc just before the exec startxfce4 part, so it starts every time.