Call for testers: Xfce 4.2.1.1 in Ubuntu Hoary Universe [from Xfld]

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:08:00AM -0400, Glanz wrote:
> xscreensaver: 08:22:11: -1: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_WM_STATE"
> received
> xscreensaver: 08:22:11: -1: for window 0xe0033b ((null) / (null))

Do these messages appear also with metacity in GNOME?

This really isn't a show-stopper, but I'm certainly willing to push this
issue upstream.

> I have already had an ~/.xsession-errors file approaching the megabyte
> level with that error and the " *** attempt to put segment in horiz
> list twice" errors, which get repeated thousands of times during a
> session. I know that implies an svg problem somewhere and I have seen
> it in all my installs of xfce4.2 in the past.
> Also the "art render invoke no image source given" error message rears
> up its head from time to time and starts generating many messages also.

Also not a show-stopper but will investigate with upstream. Target will
be Breezy.

> One more thing: SOUND... Sound works OK for cd-players, vidio, and
> media applications. But how do I get sounds for applications which use
> sound events like Epiphany, Balsa, etc. The sound interface has two
> drop-down menus: One entitled "Device" which has two choices: "default"
> and "#0: ESS Maestro3 PCI" and the other menu choices are under "Wannabe
> Master". Now in all my configuration experience on all the distros I
> have used, I have never seen a "Wannabe Master" choice list. So what's
> up with getting the sound working. What choices do I put in that little
> config interface? I am getting no errors concerning sound. Just no
> reaction and silence for events in Gnome apps. Daniel, assuming that I
> wasn't as ignorant as I really am, told me that it will happily use OSS
> or ALSA directly. OK, I'll go for that! But how do I get it to do that?

"default" should be the first choice. In the Xfce Session options, did
you enable the checkbox for starting GNOME helpers?

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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