Call for testing - MATE SlackBuilds

willysr · 04-07-2013, 04:52 AM

Which Slackware version did you use at this moment? Slackware 14.0 or Slackware-Current?

any other packages outside Slackware default packages? From SBo or Slacky.eu?

fskmh · 04-07-2013, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilgamesh

Code:

XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
** (mate-session:3264): WARNING **: Cannot open display:

I suspect this may be related to a possible race-condition in XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1/XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 where the server tries to grant a new connection with the authentication data from a previously terminated connection without checking if that connection was terminated.

One possible solution is to use make xdm use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 instead by adding this to /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config:

Code:

DisplayManager*authName:        MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

The other option is to recompile the xdm package with --disable-xdm-auth, but I cannot tell from the configure output here if that option has registered anywhere.

EDIT: I see it does make a difference, if I configure with the default Slackware 64 options (--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=x86_64-slackware-linux) and grep config.out:

Code:

grep XDM_AUTH config.log 
HAS_XDM_AUTH_FALSE='#'
HAS_XDM_AUTH_TRUE=''

If I configure with the above options and --disable-xdm-auth, here is what I get:

Code:

grep XDM_AUTH config.log 
HAS_XDM_AUTH_FALSE=''
HAS_XDM_AUTH_TRUE='#'

Lilgamesh · 04-07-2013, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

Which Slackware version did you use at this moment? Slackware 14.0 or Slackware-Current?

any other packages outside Slackware default packages? From SBo or Slacky.eu?

Thanks for your help. I have installed full except KDE. 14.0.
I don't remember installing any other packages. This is a pretty new install as I had dual boot problems recently.

I got all the mate packages with lftp and installed all packages including extra. my .xsesion-errors have following errors/warning even after it stared.

Code:

** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1847): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject

** (mate-power-manager:1851): WARNING **: Failed to get brightness: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetBrightness" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight" doesn't exist


** (mate-power-manager:1851): WARNING **: levels is 0!
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
Initializing caja-image-converter extension
Initializing caja-open-terminal extension

[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.9)[0m
[01mSystem Tray Status Service ver. 2.0[0m

Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

[35;01mwarning: No hp: or hpfax: devices found in any installed CUPS queue. Exiting.[0m
Loading configuration plugins
blueman-applet version 1.22 starting
Stale PID, overwriting
Using file config backend
Using file config backend
Using file config backend
Using file config backend
Using file config backend
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200003 (Authentica)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200003 (Authentica)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

Lilgamesh · 04-07-2013, 11:30 AM

[QUOTE=fskmh;4926820]I suspect this may be related to a possible race-condition in XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1/XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 where the server tries to grant a new connection with the authentication data from a previously terminated connection without checking if that connection was terminated.

One possible solution is to use make xdm use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 instead by adding this to /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config:

Code:

DisplayManager*authName:        MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

I am trying this now, It worked for three time.
Thanks a lot.
I will see if problem comes again.

willysr · 04-07-2013, 11:42 AM

i also set up a virtual machine of Slackware 14.0 without any DE
i compiled MATE 1.6 on top of Slackware 14.0 and it worked without any problem

about the message you got in your .xsession-errors, try to have a look on System > Preferences > Startup Applications and disable all GNOME-related services, because MATE has their own services.

Lilgamesh · 04-07-2013, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

i also set up a virtual machine of Slackware 14.0 without any DE
i compiled MATE 1.6 on top of Slackware 14.0 and it worked without any problem

about the message you got in your .xsession-errors, try to have a look on System > Preferences > Startup Applications and disable all GNOME-related services, because MATE has their own services.

I have disabled all Gnome-related services. It looks fine now.
Thanks you very much.

hitest · 04-08-2013, 07:36 AM

Many thanks chess and willysr. Mate 1.6.0 running well on a Slackware 14.0 VM on Slackware-current.

chess · 04-08-2013, 08:06 AM

@hitest and @Lilgamesh - great, glad to hear that Mate is working is working well for you. Thanks for reporting back.

willysr · 04-08-2013, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stormtracknole

I went ahead and tried something else, just to make sure. It appears that the freeze only occurred when my xorg.conf was set up to use both monitors as separate. I went ahead and changed it to Xinerama, and that did the trick. Perhaps someone that has dual-monitor can try this out?

Can you try the patch included in this git commit?
It's not in the master branch yet, but on my branch. When it has been confirmed to fix the issue, i will merge back to master and update the mate-panel binary package

NOTE: After you run mate-panel with this patch, try "mate-panel --reset".

dugan · 04-08-2013, 01:07 PM

Just built it and I'm trying it now. Works great.

EDIT: No it doesn't. It flickers horribly in my dual monitor VirtualBox when I drag windows. I suspect that I can fix this by turning window snapping off, but I don't see a way to turn window snapping off.

EDIT 2: Solved it by running the series of XRandr commands I use to set the resolution under OpenBox. Apparently Mate wasn't quite detecting the monitors right.

EDIT 3: No, I didn't solve it. However, I did notice that the only program affected was Google Chrome. I'm working around it by switching to Firefox.

willysr · 04-08-2013, 03:38 PM

OK, i guess that fixed other problem (missing panel on dual screen), not the dual monitor setup
do you have a panel on 2nd screen? i guess that's this patch fixed

dugan · 04-08-2013, 04:06 PM

I want to use mate-terminal-colors-solarized. It uses mateconftool-2. MateSlackBuild doesn't include mateconftool-2. Were can I get mateconftool-2?

hpfeil · 04-08-2013, 05:00 PM

Mate 1.6 on Current works as advertised. One spot of bother configuring libsku, I usually set LDCONFIG="-L/usr/lib64" and leave the lower-case libs in LIBS. Had to change LIBS="-lgtk" to "-lgtk-3" because I have no gtk in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig, just gtk-2 and gtk-3. I figure things are heading toward GTK+3 anyway, so might as well see what blows up.

Onward to mate-games!

Mateconftool replaced by GSettings, etc. See the "Dropped packages:" section on http://mate-desktop.org/

PS Where can I get a job running `sed 's/GEDIT/PLUMA/'` to Gnome 2.6 sources? Just kidding, ran a diff on only one file to find that.

Seriously, KUDOS to the tireless folk working on this project. I'm writing a letter to your boss to demand increased salaries for all. Just looking at building a MSB tree for mate-games left me stunned.

dugan · 04-08-2013, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hpfeil

Mateconftool replaced by GSettings, etc. See the "Dropped packages:" section on http://mate-desktop.org/

Thanks. I'll wait for the maintainer to update it then.

http://keramida.wordpress.com/2013/0...#comment-17875

chess · 04-08-2013, 06:39 PM

I have MATE running with two monitors (my laptop's built in LCD and external LCD via displayport/DVI) and everything is working well, although this is on Slackware64-14.0 using 3.8.4 kernel (for Intel 4000 graphics).