Post installation annoyances

zxspectrum2000 · Today 12:00:44

Hi people!

Just registered in this forum after installing a fresh Devuan 6, I was about to install Debian, but then heard about this project and liked more.

I'm using with xfce, and there's some annoyances that I couldn't discover how to fix them:

01: How to make the super key open the xfce menu?

02: I don't want any screensaver or automatic putting the display to sleep, so I disabled everything in Power Manager, but it's still turning off the display after some minutes, regardless if I am logged in or in the login screen. I also disable XScreenSaver and it's daemon isn't even running.

03: When I logon and play some audio for the first time, or turn off the computer, there's a loud pop, I mean, really LOUD pop in the audio.

04: How to make windows launch with the previous location? For example, I like the terminal in the center of the screen, but everytime I launch it appears on the top left side.

05: How to make the menu height larger? You can seen above that I could make the window title larger, but the menu bar is tiny:
menulibre error

06: How to edit the xfce menu? I've installed alacarte and menulibre. alacarte does nothing, menulibre throws this error:
menulibre error

07: Are we ever gonna have fractional scaling in xfce without blur? I've seen a lot of threads in forums people complaining about this for years. So, I've setup only larger DPI font for the moment, it's working fine, but how to apply also to the login screen? It reverts to a tiny little font.

08: Other thing that I also have seen people complaining but haven't found a solution so far: when you click a dropdown menu, you have to click and not move a single pixel with the mouse, otherwise it automatically closes, which is super annoying. It's ok if you are a robot, but for humans not really.

09: I have two audio output devices: a wireless headset and the regular analog lineout in the motherboard connected to speakers. I regularly use the headset for calls and the speakers for listening to music, but everytime I logon, I have to reset the default device to the speakers (using the mixer), it always revert to the headset.

10: I have a keyboard with 10 custom keys, three are configured as: open calculator, play/pause music and mute audio, but only mute is working, how to make the others work too?

Thanks very much in advance!

Devarch · Today 14:17:15

1 Try to assign hotkey to xfce4-popup-whiskermenu. If it's not present install it.
2 Strange. Disabling power for display screensaver etc is usually enough.
7 Are we ever gonna have fractional scaling in xfce without blur? - Not now, not in X11 xfce
9 I believe it's linked with pipewire settings not with xfce

If you install Devuan from live iso (XFCE) you get precooked XFCE which is much better cooked than the default one instaled via tasksel or apt.

or choose another DE

Altoid · Today 14:41:57

Hello:

Welcome to Dev1.

zxspectrum2000 wrote:

... don't want any screensaver or automatic putting the display to sleep ...
... still turning off the display after some minutes ...

Open a terminal and run this:

$ xset -q

In a section labelled [Screen Saver:] you will see the working settings.
I understand that they override all other settings.

See [man xset] for details on how to set them.

Best,

A.

greenjeans · Today 14:50:49

I don't use a power manager in the mini's I make, nor in my own installs, I have a small script that runs once on startup that turns it all off.

#! /bin/sh

xset dpms 0 0 0
xset -dpms
xset s off

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