{"id":123,"date":"2016-07-24T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xpam.pl\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-07-24T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:35:27","slug":"fedora-24-xfce-pains-and-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpam.pl\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 24 XFCE pains and gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently installed Fedora 24 XFCE on my brand new Entroware Apollo, a Linux friendly laptop. Here is a list of problems I encountered during my first week of use. While most of these problems had a solution with a bit of googling, non-tech savvy person would have severe problems solving them.<\/p>\n

PAINS<\/h2>\n
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  1. System completely hangs when I connect a second monitor. Unresolved<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Could not see any WiFi networks because the interface was not managed. Had to make it managed in NetworkManager.conf manually.<\/li>\n
  3. At some point, XFCE panel would not show up anymore and I got an error message on startup asking me to start the panel. Solved it by deleting .config folder. What the hell?<\/li>\n
  4. No login prompt when laptop comes out of suspend, even though I have both option in power management and session settings turned on. Unresolved<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  5. Adding programs to favorites in Whiskers menu sometimes does not persist across reboots. I think esepcially when I did a hard reset due to issue #1.<\/li>\n
  6. My Nexus 4 would not automount in Thunar over USB. After an hour of Googling and installing random packages I got it to work, I think?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    GAINS<\/h2>\n
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    1. Numix theme on XFCE is extremely nice, I love it. There is just one small bug so far in Volume widget, the selection color hides the slider completely.<\/li>\n
    2. My FreeNAS was automatically detected by Thunar while the old Gnome-files setup would not show it and even refuse to mount it sometimes manually. A nice surprise.<\/li>\n
    3. I like how you can fully customize XFCE panels. The only thing I actually couldn't do is completely hide the panel (there is like a 3px grey bar when the panel is hidden). Other than that it's super nice.<\/li>\n
    4. Fedy is super nice. Props to it's maintainers, it all just works.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      So basically, everything kinda works now but it was a bumpy road to achieve this. Hopefully I get some feedback on issue #1 in Fedora bug tracker because it's really severe.<\/p>\n

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      \r\n      Eurobattle.net<\/a>
      \r\n      Lagabuse.com<\/a>
      \r\n      Bnetdocs<\/a>
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