xfce4

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Monday, the 14th day of October, in the year of our Lord 2002, at 03:57
PM
the esteemed person of letters, Net Llama! quoth:

NL> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 gardnerj at provide.net wrote:
NL> > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:52:00 -0400 (EDT)
NL> >  Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
NL> > > I just built the latest xfce4 from CVS, and it looks
NL> > > nice.  I'm wondering
NL> > > though, should the mouse menu's (the ones that work under
NL> > > XFCE3 when you
NL> > > click the different mouse buttons) work?  I don't get
NL> > > anything.
NL> >
NL> > There's another module called xfdeskmenu you can grab from
NL> > CVS and it must be told to start (ie at the same time you
NL> > start xfwm4 and xfce4). It's nice. One of it's nice
NL> > features is the ability to easily change xfwm window themes
NL> > (of which there are many) on the fly. The default is to
NL> > call it with the middle mouse button but that can be
NL> > changed I think in ~/.xfdeskmenu
NL> 
NL> OK, i built that.  For some reason i thought that xfdeskmenu was the
NL> menubar thingy.  Anyway, i started it, and when i middle click on the
NL> desktop, i see a slew of these errors:
NL> 
NL> (xfdeskmenu:22647): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
NL> pointer to `GtkObject' (xfdeskmenu:22647): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file
NL> gtksignal.c: line 140 (gtk_signal_connect_full): assertion
NL> `GTK_IS_OBJECT( object)' failed (xfdeskmenu:22647):
NL> GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)  pointer to
NL> `GtkWidget' (xfdeskmenu:22647): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast
NL> from (NULL)  pointer to `GtkMenu'(xfdeskmenu:22647): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
NL> file gtkmenu.c: line 643(gtk_menu_popup): assertion `GTK_IS_MENU
NL> (menu)' failed
NL> 
NL> and then nothing happens.  This is from the CVS checkout i did this
NL> morning.

This is rapidly moving out my area of expertise but as far as I know not a
lot of work has been done on xfdeskmenu since I last checked it out. I WAS
wrong above the . file xfdeskmenu uses is ~/.xfdeskmenurc . Did you edit
the example.xfdeskmenurc file from the source and place it at
~/.xfdeskmenurc? There's a good chance that this has nothing to do with
it, but it may so I mention it.
Good luck.

Jonthan