XFCE4 installation from MXPI Popular Apps fails [Solved]

[AVLinux]

Hi,

For proof of concept I'm trying to install XFCE4 from MXPI Popular Applications into a fresh AV Linux install in Gnome Boxes and getting stopped at this point:

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The following NEW packages will be installed:
  desktop-defaults-mx-xfce-system
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 51 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded.
64 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/10.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 65.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for catfish:amd64

Is this expected?

[dolphin_oracle]

nope, catfish is in debian repo. maybe post your quick-system-info.

[AVLinux]

Hold on... Mr. Rushy Pants here forgot to run MX-Updater first... It progressed further I'm still getting an error but I think it's a conflict with the Thunar folder thumbnailer which I also packaged for AVL, let me sort that out first and see what happens..

OK, that got it to finish, sorry for the noise, my bad.. now for the big reboot!

And... Mostly success! Some missing Icons and xfwm themes that aren't there because I don't include them in AVL themes and for some reason QT stuff isn't taking the GTK theme but all the main stuff is there.. I would expect there to be some minor adjustments for a D.E that wasn't planned for.

[AVLinux]

Well OK,

Since this has gone pretty well I might as well do the extra diligence to get ahead of potential issues in case AVL Users want to optionally install XFCE4 in the future so I can fill in the blanks..

So, in the context of an existing AVL install with Enlightenment when I install XFCE4 with the MX defaults from MXPI-->Popular Apps QT stuff isn't taking the GTK theming and I'm using the same GTK theme in both XFCE4 and Enlightenment. I know vanilla MX XFCE4 handles this and when I'm logged into Enlightenment the QT apps are properly themed so I know my GTK themes work with QT so what am I missing in the XFCE4 install?

As you can see the QT colors are brown and orange with no correlation to the dark and blue GTK theme:



I even tried installing 'qt5gtk2' from MX Test but no dice there either..

[dolphin_oracle]

show your environment variables

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env

[AVLinux]

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DevBoxes@AVL-Boxes:~
$ env
SHELL=/bin/bash
SESSION_MANAGER=local/AVL-Boxes:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1414,unix/AVL-Boxes:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1414
WINDOWID=62914563
QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
COLORTERM=truecolor
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-
QT_LOGGING_RULES=qt.qpa.xcb.warning=false
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXSztFfD/agent.1414
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/DevBoxes/.config
DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce
SSH_AGENT_PID=1489
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
XDG_SEAT=seat0
PWD=/home/DevBoxes
LOGNAME=DevBoxes
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xfce
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
PANEL_GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=0
XAUTHORITY=/home/DevBoxes/.Xauthority
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm/data/DevBoxes
HOME=/home/DevBoxes
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=00:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.avif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.webp=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:*~=00;90:*#=00;90:*.bak=00;90:*.old=00;90:*.orig=00;90:*.part=00;90:*.rej=00;90:*.swp=00;90:*.tmp=00;90:*.dpkg-dist=00;90:*.dpkg-old=00;90:*.ucf-dist=00;90:*.ucf-new=00;90:*.ucf-old=00;90:*.rpmnew=00;90:*.rpmorig=00;90:*.rpmsave=00;90:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE
VTE_VERSION=7006
QT_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/DevBoxes/.cache
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=xterm-256color
USER=DevBoxes
DISPLAY=:0.0
SHLVL=1
XDG_VTNR=7
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=gtk2
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xfce4:/home/DevBoxes/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin
GDMSESSION=xfce
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1
_=/usr/bin/env
DevBoxes@AVL-Boxes:~
$

[dolphin_oracle]

Does the other them have gtk2 definition in it?

[AVLinux]

Yep, the theme folder has a gtk-2.0 subfolder and gtkrc.. and it does work in Enlightenment so the gtk2 theme is working in QT apps. Actually MX Comfort is behaving the same.. It's interesting to note that the font seems OK and the button widgets are right, it's just the colors that are off.




This is observed in a Gnome Boxes VM, is it possible this is a Video display driver thing?

Same VM logged into Enlightenment:

[dolphin_oracle]

maybe see what neofetch thinks are the themes.

looks weird to me.

got any gtk overrides like in a .gtkrc (I forget exact name, but lives in home folder hidden I think) file?

[AVLinux]

Hmmm,

I don't think anything looks too out of whack there..? I certainly don't have any themes with that brownish color...lol