PCBSD 9.0 x64 LXDE bugs

[BugRaiser]

First of all I'd like to say that I am delighted with the general look and feel of this PCBSD release and the responsiveness of the LXDE desktop is great on relatively old hardware.
However, I have found some bugs that makes the experience with the OS less pleasant.
Being my first time on a PCBSD forum and seeing that there aren't many threads started on the LXDE section of it (I take it there aren't many users that installed the LXDE version of Isotope), I have decided to post all of the bugs on this thread. If a different approach is preferred, please let me know.
So here they are:

1. on the PCBSD System Configuration app , on the Misc tab, the 'Show splash image on boot' checkbox never stays checked, although I press the 'Save' button; however the language selection is saved

2. After installing Wine, double clicking on the Wine File Manager icon on the Desktop logs me out

3. I have 5 NTFS partitions (3 on one HDD and 2 on another), but only 4 of them are mounted; the one that is not mounted is on the same HDD with the PCBSD installation, but the other one on the same partition is mounted

4. The following applications are added to the 'Other' category on the menu:
- audacious
- brasero
- cheese
- vlc
- midori
- muCommander

5. No setting I make in the Compiz Settings Manager seem to have any effect, no effects are actually enabled.

The following crashes are application related and I need to know if I should raise the bugs against the respective applications instead of PCBSD forum:

1. Midori crashes whenever I try to add a bookmark

2. Brasero crashes at every startup; when running from console, the output is:
'GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.brasero.config' is not installed

aborting...
Abort trap'
Running the '/usr/local/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/' command doesn't seem to fix the issue.

3. Cheese reports missing elements: 'One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: oggmux, theoraenc, vorbisenc, gconfaudiosrc, gconfvideosink.'

Please let me know if I need to create more threads or if additional information is needed.

[pinhead]

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1. on the PCBSD System Configuration app , on the Misc tab, the 'Show splash image on boot' checkbox never stays checked, although I press the 'Save' button; however the language selection is saved
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Hi,
that is also true for LXDE USB 32-bit Image. Checking the box and rebooting gives a splash image for 1-2 seconds. Next reboot no splash image is showing up.

Same with Update Manager. Turning OFF starting at system start has no effect. Update Manager is ALWAYS starting up.

uname -v
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #3: Tue Dec 27 21:59:00 UTC 2011 root@build9x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/builds/i386/pcbsd-build90/fbsd-source/9.0/sys/GENERIC

Hardware: Thinkpad T30

Found more smaller bugs, will continue testing.

This version of PCBSD with LXDE is pure fun. Fast, stable...

I love it and want to thank all for the work done!

Cheers.

[RJARRRPCGP]

1. Midori crashes whenever I try to add a bookmark

Reminds me of early Midori versions, where I couldn't even go to some web sites without getting a segfault!

[kareraisu]

i'm using this version of pcbsd and i have the following trouble:

When i insert my usb drive on this computer it mounts, but pcmanfm crashes when trying to read and or write it or if it does it doesn't do it well.

When i move files from a folder to other, i have to refresh the initial folder, like when i have to refresh a web page.

I tried Thunar but i have the same problem.

Also PCmanfm crashes when i visit a folder wiich is full of computing material that i was given in a dvd.....

It's obvious that lxde needs a bugfix release, but it's yet too good to give it up... what can i do in the meantime?

[kmoore134]

Sounds like most of your problems are with pcmanfm. I've had good luck
installing the KDE packages, and just using dolphin from within LXDE :P

[BugRaiser]

Hi, Kris. I noticed that some of the bugs I reported in this thread are fixed in the latest pre-9.1 builds.
Are there any plans to fix the other issues I reported?

[kmoore134]

We'll be bugfixing right up to 9.1 release, so hopefully we'll get them
all

[BugRaiser]

Nice, thank you.
Hope you'll squash the most annoying ones. Sorry for posting so many bugs in just one thread.

[rvc]

is there a way we can hide or auto hide the desktop icons ? i usually do not like my desktop cluttered with icons. whatever apps i installed, a desktop icon is created and add to it the default desktop icons... a way to disable visibility of these icons will be nice to keep lxde desktop clean....

thanks in advance...

[BugRaiser]

Hi, rvc.

I think this is a feature of the PBI packaging system, to create desktop icons after a package is installed. Personally, I manually delete the shortcuts.

But here's a post that tells you how to disable LXDE icons alltogether:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=72362.0

Basically, you can tell LXDE to not manage your desktop at all. Not sure if this is what you want.

If you'd like this PBI feature to be customizable, you should probably post on one of these PCBSD forums:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/forumdisplay.php?f=15

or

http://forums.pcbsd.org/forumdisplay.php?f=12