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by ab1jx
Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Got my LXDE stuck
Replies: 5
Views: 3114

Re: Got my LXDE stuck

I don't know, it was just an SD which I could still copy things from when booted from something else. It was a big deal for a few days, it's somewhere in a pile of them now.
by ab1jx
Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:08 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: Diminishing numbers of desktops
Replies: 6
Views: 9877

Re: Diminishing numbers of desktops

I complained about problems with multiple desktops on Raspberry PI OS on their board, and somebody there told me they no longer supported multiple desktops. I think because of a switch to Wayland which probably doesn't get along with OpenBox. I see they've also now got a captcha on their site. I don...
by ab1jx
Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:09 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Got my LXDE stuck
Replies: 5
Views: 3114

Re: Got my LXDE stuck

I have 2 pairs of identical buttons for the network stuff, they don't do anything. Not much works at all. I swapped out the SD card and booted into something else for now. I can still read it when it isn't booted. It's like 2 processes are fighting each other. Not even sure top or ps work. I can rec...
by ab1jx
Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:02 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Got my LXDE stuck
Replies: 5
Views: 3114

Re: Got my LXDE stuck

At first I thought it should be simple to fix by just deleting my config files and letting it revert to defaults. But I was logged in as root. I think there is still a set but not in a normal place.
by ab1jx
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:59 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Got my LXDE stuck
Replies: 5
Views: 3114

Got my LXDE stuck

This is on a Raspberry Pi with Buster. I was working on something else and somehow I enabled 2 network manager buttons at once and now neither works, the network doesn't work, and I'm on a different machine (a Chromebook). The labels on the buttons are slightly different (Network Status Monitor and ...
by ab1jx
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:10 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: Diminishing numbers of desktops
Replies: 6
Views: 9877

Re: Diminishing numbers of desktops

Oh, forgot about this post. The problem is that Raspberry Pi no longer supports multiple desktops. Debian, Ubuntu, etc still do. I'm moving to pure Debian, got a Debian 12 install in progress.
by ab1jx
Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:28 am
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: Diminishing numbers of desktops
Replies: 6
Views: 9877

Diminishing numbers of desktops

I first ran across LXDE about 1978 and thought it was just great, I loved having 6 or so desktops and almost every Linux machine I've set up since then has had them. But that's getting harder to do in the past couple years and I'm not sure why. I have machines I set up years ago which still have the...
by ab1jx
Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:42 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: General sluggishness, especialy lxpanel
Replies: 1
Views: 2818

General sluggishness, especialy lxpanel

I've done some playing around writing plugins based on the CPU Usage Monitor and the digital clock. I made a GUI Bitcoin price monitor and a text one. https://sourceforge.net/projects/btctick/ Anyway my network connection is through a cell phone, so I thought something I'd written was blocking waiti...
by ab1jx
Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:40 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Can't change focus or drag windows
Replies: 8
Views: 33006

Re: Can't change focus or drag windows

I wasn't actually compiling ffmpeg, it was done and installed. I did a make uninstall then later a make install to put my new one back. The one I just built is 4.2.2, the one in debs is 4.1.4, but I was having odd problems with it. I blame my crash on grub-uboot. I don't actually need it on this Ras...
by ab1jx
Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:15 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Can't change focus or drag windows
Replies: 8
Views: 33006

Re: Can't change focus or drag windows

Got it. Booted to just a command line, I renamed /root/.config/openbox/lxde-pi-rc.xmlo to .off. Did a startx and it's mostly normal. Right-clicking on stuff in lxpanel doesn't work yet. I enabled a pager with obconf and set it to 6 desktops but I only see 1. I'm thinking I need to quit LXDE to cause...