[Pkg-xfce-devel] xfce4-panel cannot be customized without completely breaking functionality

[Simon Huggins]

Salut Kyle!

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:33:00PM +0800, Kyle Pearson wrote:
> I'm running a plain-vanilla [Testing] distribution, with xserver-xorg
> 6.9and the full xfce4 4.2.3 package (+/- some plugins)on an unmodified
> 2.6.15 Debian kernel.  when customized in any way (separators, weather
> plugin, disk- or net-perf, modding the default browser, etc),
> xfce4-panel-4.2.3-1 will:

> a) on first instance, accept modifications.

> b) somewhere between 2d and 5th instances, crash .

None of us see this.

A crashing panel with the weather plugin is likely to be down to that
plugin.

Can you reproduce it without that?

> If the desktop is closed and reopened, then xfce4-panel does not
> reappear, and must henceforth always be called from the console.
> Console registers gtk errors.

Can we have copies of those please?

If you do reopen it then if you logout and choose to save the session it
should reappear next time you run X.

> If it is subsequently called from the console, it reappears without any
> modifications.  Again:  upon re-opening new instances of the desktop the
> panel never  reappears.

> I've experimented with several different test-users, and the results
> are always the same.

Hmm, odd.  We don't see this.

I'd suggest starting from scratch by removing
rm -rf .config .cache .xfce4
and starting again.

Have you previously run any other xfce4 packages?  Is your machine in
general unstable?

If you are running testing or unstable then you could try our new
4.4beta1 packages which are available at:
http://www.corsac.net/?rub=xfce

Simon

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