[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000180]: adding kdeinit to xinitrc spoils panel

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The following bug has been CLOSED
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000180
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Reporter:                   purslow
Handler:                    huysmans
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000180
Category:                   panel
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
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Date Submitted:             2004-04-25 01:12 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-04-25 09:18 GMT
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Summary:                    adding kdeinit to xinitrc spoils panel
Description: 
following a suggestion by Bernard Walle, i added to xinitrc :

  if [ `ps aux | grep $USER | grep kdeinit | wc -l` -le 2 ] ; then
      kdeinit &
  fi

in order to speed up the start of KDE applications.
this has the bad side-effect of spoiling the panel: see shots:
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/snapshot1.png
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/snapshot2.png
snapshot 1 is the normal panel, snapshot 2 is deformed
by being shorter & having a different (ugly) font.

when i exit XFCE & restart (without rebooting),
the panel is restored to its normal form (snapshot 1).
when i reboot, the bad effect occurs again.

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 olivier - 2004-04-25 05:53 GMT 
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Well, this is really not a bug with xfce, kdeinit simply changes the Xft
values.

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 huysmans - 2004-04-25 09:17 GMT 
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I'm sorry, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Adding this to your .xinitrc may work:

( sleep 10 ; kdeinit ) &

That should start kdeinit after the panel has started (unless that takes
more than 10 seconds).