A few XFCE issues

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I recently movied my main desktop OS from Windows 7 to openSUSE. I’ve been using LXDE since GNOME 3 launched, but it’s always been in a virtual machine on a Windows host. I tried to customize the panel at the bottom of the screen to add some of the things that I had in Windows and got very frustrated. I decided to try MATE since I’d used GNOME 2 for years before LXDE. I installed it, but it just looked old and dated, so I installed Xfce.

I love Xfce, but with all of these software changes, I’ve developed a few problems. First, I don’t have any sound. I had sound in LXDE and realized at some point while using MATE that I no longer did. The volume icon in LXDE has an ‘x’ next to it and says “no device and/or element” when I move the mouse over it. I am guessing that I don’t have any sound daemon running, but I don’t know which one I should be using.

Second, when I try to run “Software Manager” under the Yast gui, everything loads, and then I get an error box labeled “UI Syntax Error.” It reads “Couldn’t load plug-in gtk-pkg. Check the log file!” When I click “Close,” Software Manager closes as well. The log file is massive, BTW. It wasn’t helpful to me. Luckily, zypper and the ncurses version of Yast/Software Manager are both working.

Third, whenever I run Yast or the Software Manager, I get a small window labeled “xdg-su” which shows me what is happen on the command line (i.e. behind the scenes). These boxes never close on their own, and a new one opens every time I run one of these apps. There might be more apps opening these, but Yast and Software Manager are the ones that I am sure of.

I updated my computer from openSUSE 13.1 to Tumbleweed earlier today. I was hoping that updating everything would fix at least some of my issues. It didn’t, but I like being on a rolling release, so I am happy to be on Tumbleweed.

I would appreciate any advice I can get on fixing all of this stuff. :slight_smile:

Thank you!

W. Newnum
Columbia, Missouri USA

EDIT: Here is a list of my current repositories (priority is 90 for Packman and 99 for all others):

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh

–±---------------------------------±---------------------------------±--------±-------
1 | PackmanTumbleweed | PackmanTumbleweed | Yes | Yes
2 | openSUSE:Stable_OSS | openSUSE:Stable_OSS | Yes | Yes
3 | openSUSE:Stable_Updates | openSUSE:Stable_Updates | Yes | Yes
4 | openSUSE:Stable_non-OSS | openSUSE:Stable_non-OSS | Yes | Yes
5 | openSUSE:Stable_non-OSS__Updates | openSUSE:Stable_non-OSS__Updates | Yes | Yes
6 | openSUSE:Tumbleweed | openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Yes | Yes
7 | opensuse-guide.org-repo | libdvdcss repository | Yes | Yes

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On 2014-10-11 22:06, wnewnum wrote:
>
> I recently movied my main desktop OS from Windows 7 to openSUSE. I’ve
> been using LXDE since GNOME 3 launched, but it’s always been in a
> virtual machine on a Windows host. I tried to customize the panel at
> the bottom of the screen to add some of the things that I had in Windows
> and got very frustrated. I decided to try MATE since I’d used GNOME 2
> for years before LXDE. I installed it, but it just looked old and
> dated, so I installed Xfce.

I assume that you are doing it in real hardware now, not as a virtual guest.

> I love Xfce, but with all of these software changes, I’ve developed a
> few problems. First, I don’t have any sound. I had sound in LXDE and
> realized at some point while using MATE that I no longer did.

Well first thing would be to try sound in YaST.

> Second, when I try to run “Software Manager” under the Yast gui,
> everything loads, and then I get an error box labeled “UI Syntax Error.”
> It reads “Couldn’t load plug-in gtk-pkg. Check the log file!” When I
> click “Close,” Software Manager closes as well. The log file is
> massive, BTW. It wasn’t helpful to me. Luckily, zypper and the ncurses
> version of Yast are both working.

It’s preferable a single question per thread, but let’s try.

Maybe libyui-gtk-pkg5 is missing or wrong version.

> I updated my computer from openSUSE 13.1 to Tumbleweed earlier today. I
> was hoping that updating everything would fix at least some of my
> issues. It didn’t, but I like being on a rolling release, so I am happy
> to be on Tumbleweed.

Uh-oh…
Sorry, but then I must suggest you request a moderator to move your
thread to the tumbleweed forum. Just click on the triangle report button
below. Tumbleweed has specific issues.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

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You’ve been immensely helpful, Carlos. First, the sound issue was me being dense. Master was on 100 but PCM was on 0. That’s fixed. http://aggiehardball.com/forum/Smileys/default/picardicon.gif
Second, ‘sudo zypper install libyui-gtk-pkg5’ fixed my Yast/Software Manager problem.

My only remaining question is why these little “yast windows” keep popping up. Oh, but they do go away on their own when I close the application that launched them. When I launch Yast, I authenticate in one of these. When I launch Software Manager, this one pops up.

http://tamusquash.com/small-window.jpg

Thanks again for your help, Carlos!

W. Newnum
Columbia, Missouri USA

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Installing gnomesu and dependencies fixed my last problem. Thanks again for your help!