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eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 601

Bad Labwc Update

Heads up! Labwc just updated to 0.8.2-1 in Debian sid and now it fails to start. This is also freezing up lightdm. Hold off on upgrading.

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Debian Sid
Xfce 4.20 with Wayland/Labwc

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,678

Re: Bad Labwc Update

Thanks for the heads up. Anything in log files that might indicate the problem?

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eriefisher

Moderator

From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 601

Re: Bad Labwc Update

I haven't checked. Hope to look today.

Added later 57 min 58 s:
I have partially sorted this. It looks like the update overwrote the /usr/share/wayland-sessions/labwc.desktop file. I had edited it to start with xfce4. So now I have copied and edited it to reflect what I want with Exec=startxfce4 --wayland. This works perfectly when called from a VT but lightdm is freezing up when starting anything labwc. Starting and X or a wayfire session is no problem.

Edit: I forgot to add the "--" in the new labwc.desktop file. Corrected it and it works again.

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Siduction
Debian Sid
Xfce 4.20 with Wayland/Labwc