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yashX

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Registered: 2024-11-17

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dimensions is not showing

I don't know why but for whatever reason dimensions is not showing, i think maybe i set some setting wrong?
please help i search all over the internet and i can't find an answer. Thanks!

(sorry for bad english)

ToZ

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Can you explain in more detail which dimensions you are referring to?

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yashX

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Windows dimensions, it used to show exact width and height whenever i resize a window.

Last edited by yashX (2024-11-19 15:27:49)

ToZ

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Re: dimensions is not showing

That's from xfwm4. That functionality needs to be enabled at build time with the --enable-poswin parameter.

I believe fedora does this but other distros don't.

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yashX

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Re: dimensions is not showing

hmm does this mean i have to start xfwm4 with --enable-poswin parameter or rebuild it from source?

Last edited by yashX (2024-11-20 10:25:05)

ToZ

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Rebuild from source.

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yashX

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Thanks but it would take lot of time, also i don't know how to do it. Is there another way around this? because it used show but out of no where it doesn't.

peter.48

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Rebuild from source.

This sounds great, but how to do it?

ToZ

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Which distro are you using?

Do you have any experience building packages from source?

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peter.48

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Fedora 40
Building in theory is not a problem, but in case of XFWM there is a problem of dependencies (solvable) and afterwards:

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.24.0... not found
*** The required package gtk+-3.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install gtk+-3.0 (atleast version 3.24.0) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.

In Fedora there is no gtk+-3.0 package and searching in internet I see instructions to change (assign) PATH (prefix), but incomprehensible for me - they tell you "change", but I don't know where or for what thing I have to change it. I am not a techie and most things are not obvious to me (and as I always say about linux instructions: to initiate you, you have to be initiated...).

The second thing which is not clear to me is how to proceed with the change, because I am going to build on my pc with xfwm running. I have to uninstall it and then build the new one? if I uninstall, as a dependency it will also uninstall xfce-desktop etc. (and I don't know what the result could be, desktop crash or system crash?).
I have seen on net that stopping xfwm is very problematic (I have tried it in task manager, no result).

eriefisher

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Re: dimensions is not showing

The missing package is likely called libgtk3-dev or something similar. devel maybe in Fedora? Anytime your compiling always look for the source or headers for ta package.

upon a successful build the package will be installed and overwrite the existing package. You will nee to log out and back in again for the change.

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peter.48

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Re: dimensions is not showing

missing package is likely called libgtk3-dev or something similar

I've seen it in Ubuntu forum, but in Fedora there is no libgtk* or lib-gtk* package...
Searching I found only libgtk3-dev rpms for Mageia and PClinuxOS, I don't know if it is convenient to try to install them.

Last edited by peter.48 (2024-11-25 17:33:04)

kwizzz

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Hm, without validating on a Fedora installation, but a quick google search resulted in:
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs … tk3-devel/

Description:

This package contains the libraries and header files that are needed
for writing applications with version 3 of the GTK+ widget toolkit. If
you plan to develop applications with GTK+, consider installing the
gtk3-devel-docs package.

eriefisher

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Re: dimensions is not showing

That looks like the package. Do you need to enable a repo on fedora to get header packages?

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peter.48

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Re: dimensions is not showing

I have this package installed. The same as libxfce4util which the script does not find either.
I don't know if I have to install i686 versions as well.

I would like to know if in the Gitlab page from where I downloaded xfwm4 source there is information about dependencies, because I am not able to find anything and I don't know if I've missed something. It is very tiring and frustrating non stop to read that this or that is missing, install, launch script, again that something is missing and so on and so on in a loop...

kwizzz

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Re: dimensions is not showing

It's hard to tell you what to, since I don't know what you exactly did (what you installed, what commands you typed in, etc).

Here's another take: I went to perplexity.ai and asked "how can i compile xfce in fedora?"
Outcome: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-ca … b7DXVeXsLA

As you can see, it's a bit Fedora stuff to get the right development tools installed PLUS the instructions from https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
Besides that, it looks like you need to provide the correct PKG_CONFIG_PATH

(Note that I did not yet try to compile XFCE myself, but that is on my bucket list -- though I think I will stick to openSUSE Leap, which seems to be the perfect match for XFCE)

ToZ

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Re: dimensions is not showing

Does this help?

In the SPECS/xfwm4.specs file you'll want to add:

--enable-poswin

...to the line:

%configure --disable-static

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