XFCE upgraded to 4.16

[Guido Falsi]

On 08/01/21 15:22, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 1/4/21 6:02 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
> 
>>> I was also using sysutils/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin (since my laptop has 
>>> no indicators): any replacement for this?
>>
>> Please do some searches on freshports, I'm quite sure there are some 
>> ports there creating tray icons. Google is your friend too.
> 
> I din't find anything, but I'll try again.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In the meantime I upgraded my desktop:
> 
>> For this kind of stuff (and also the previous point) I'm using 
>> sysutils/conky
> 
> Doesn't conky show a widget on the desktop? I want that on a panel.

Well, I just proposed what I use daily, everyone has his own preferences.
> 
> Now one more question:
> 
> I can't quite cope with the deafult themes (Clearlooks which I was using 
> previously, now has changed in some way), so I downloaded some extra 
> ones and I'm trying to install them.
> However, when I press "+ Add" in xfce4-appearance-settings and choose 
> the tarball, it tries to create a temporary directory in / (e.g. 
> "mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp.G9yLe4V3: Permission denied").
> Is this normal???
> Is it a bug? Or am I trying to do things the wrong way?

Looking at sources xfce4-settings uses a script to perform the operation 
at one point it executes this line of code:

tmpdir=`TMPDIR="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$TMPDIR}" mktemp -d`

Could you check with env in a terminal if you have any of those two env 
vars set?

I do not have any, so the script would obviously end up using the root 
directory, which is definitely wrong.

I need to think a little what the best solution could be in this case. I 
also need to check the full script to create a sensible patch.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>