Description of problem: Installing Afterstep from IceWM makes the MCC icon (in IceWM) inactive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): afterstep-2.2.12-19.mga8 How reproducible: From 2 different installs. Steps to Reproduce (1st method): 1. Install Mageia 8 from Mageia-8-x86_64.iso 2. When you reach Desktop Selection, choose Custom, then untick Plasma and tick Other Graphical Desktop. Finish the install without updates. 3. Reboot to IceWM after the install and see that the MCC icon in the taskbar launches the program correctly. 4. Install online media, then install afterstep. 5. Try to reboot to Afterstep and fall back to IceWM. 6. See that the MCC icon in the IceWM taskbar has become unresponsive. 7. Run drakconf in a terminal and see the same error message as in the screenshot attached (sorry, I couldn't copy/paste that). 2nd method : Do the same, except when you reach Desktop Selection: go a step further and tick Individual package selection to select afterstep directly from the list. When the install is finished and you reboot to IceWM, the MCC icon is already unresponsive.
Created attachment 12426 [details] Screenshot showing the error message in a terminal Running MCC from a terminal with afterstep package installed.
Hi, thanks reporting this. As far as I see, I think that only root owned Applications are unresponsive under Afterstep. Do other Applications run well under Afterstep session? Or they are also broken?
Status: NEW => NEEDINFOSummary: Afterstep messes up with MCC => Mageia Control Centre unresponsive under Afterstep VMCC: (none) => ouaurelien
Summary: Mageia Control Centre unresponsive under Afterstep VM => Mageia Control Centre unresponsive under Afterstep Window Manager
CC: (none) => fri
I'm not familiar with afterstep, but it seems all the applications installed by default are working, except the MCC. Also, I'm not convinced that I'm actually running afterstep… it looks like this is still IceWM, but I may be wrong.
Assignee: bugsquad => ouaurelienStatus: NEEDINFO => NEW
Created attachment 12707 [details] Afterstep VM session Screenshot of AfterStep session. MCC is *not* in any Menu section to be find under AfterStep. (Remark: in order to get this session, I have to install lightdm and select it to be the preferred Desktop Manager, and to be able to have AfterStep session. XDM seems to not let user to select graphically the session to log on). Going back to the root of this bug report, it seems there is missing graphical polkit elevator to be able to run GUI apps as root. But, you can run them as soon as you type their name under a terminal GUI as root. Under iceWM and AfterStep I am able to launch MCC. The way to get it running is FAR from being user-friendly. But, these "Desktops/WM" are also non user-friendly at their origins.
On a Plasma installation, there is a iceWM fallback session available. Under this session, I am able to load MCC with a polkit dialog asking for credentials. This is polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1... polkit-mate-authentication-agent is missing when you install only afterstep and default selection of packages with no other major Desktop. So, this is a missing dependency on mate-polkit-1.24.0-4 package which should always be installed with iceWM session. A polkit agent is mandatory to launch MCC with desktop icon. Assigning this to Cauldron, with MGA8TOO, to maintainers.
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 9Summary: Mageia Control Centre unresponsive under Afterstep Window Manager => Missing dependency on a polkit agent under default iceWM only session.Source RPM: afterstep-2.2.12-19.mga8 => icewm-2.0.1-2.mga8.src.rpm, mate-polkit-1.24.0-4.mga8.src.rpmCC: (none) => luigiwalser, smelrorWhiteboard: (none) => MGA8TOOStatus comment: (none) => When user select Other Desktops, and later choose afterstep or any other one, there is no polkit agent installedVersion: 8 => CauldronAssignee: ouaurelien => pkg-bugs
Source RPM: icewm-2.0.1-2.mga8.src.rpm, mate-polkit-1.24.0-4.mga8.src.rpm => icewm-2.0.1-2.mga8.src.rpm, afterstep-2.2.12-19.mga8.src.rpm
Note that icewm-light already does require mate-polkit. Check installation logs to see why it's not getting installed.