[gentoo-user] Re: lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

[Harry Putnam]

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:27:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences
>> Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog
>> box... just an error messages that says:
>>
>>     Desktop manager is not active
>>
>> All the lxde-base pkgs contained in lxde-meta are installed.
>>
>> Openbox wm is installed.
>>
>> Anyone know what that error message means or how to get around or fix
>> it?
>
> You're missing an essential package. Install lxde-meta to make sure you
> get it. Once working, you can remove unnecessary packages later.

That sounded like a plan until I actually tried to re-install
lxde-meta.

I found no way to make emerge do that.  I thought by adding such
things as --deep --newuse --changed-use it would cause a reinstall

But emerge just closes and tells me nothing is outated in lxde-meta

Example:
   # emerge --deep --newuse --changed-use -v lxde-meta

   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

   Calculating dependencies... done!

   Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB

And that is also with bdeps=y from my make.conf

  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"

After browsing thru `man emerge' a couple of times It appears there is
not some kind of `force' flag.

Is there some combination of switches that will cause emerge to
re-install lxde-meta? Or baring that I thought I'd try emerging
individual pkgs... but there not exactly easy to find ebuilds of.. I
still haven't

Also ran into a wall trying to use the regular tools like qlist to
determine what is in there.  I found the list after search a while on
google but I'm curious why `qlist' doesn't list off
what is in there, like it does in all other cases.