gtk2 menu shadow patch

[Brian J. Tarricone]

please make sure you are running the latest components of xfce - they 
should all have version 4.0.4, except for gtk-xfce-engine, which is 
version 2.1.9.  the 4.0.4 release contains a bunch of gtk 2.4 fixes.

    -brian

bob.snyder wrote:

> Thanks Brian,
>
> I recompiled and reinstalled gtk-xfce-engine-2.1.6 and now I get only 
> "Segmentation fault". The error message about the theme engine is 
> gone. Do any other parts of xfce need to be rebuilt? While most of 
> xfce seems to work okay I noticed that the iconbox is also not 
> starting. I am also getting "Segmentation fault" for that.
>
> Bob S.
>
>
>
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
>> yep, whenever you do a gtk minor version upgrade, you have to 
>> recompile and reinstall _all_ your gtk theme engines.  well, it might 
>> be enough to just move them, but methinks it's safer to recompile.
>>
>>    -brian
>>
>> bob.snyder wrote:
>>
>>> This isn't really an xfce problem, but I've gone and tried the 
>>> above. I had gtk version 2.2 so I upgraded:
>>>
>>>   atk to 1.6.0
>>>   glib to 2.4.0
>>>   pango to 1.4.0
>>>   gtk+ to 2.4.0
>>>
>>> Everything is built from source including xfce4.
>>>
>>> Now some things work (the menu shadow is nice) but some things 
>>> don't. Most of xfce works okay, but xfdesktop segfaults with this:
>>>
>>> (xfdesktop:14522): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
>>> module_path: "xfce",
>>>
>>> (xfdesktop:14522): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
>>> module_path: "xfce",
>>>
>>> (xfdesktop:14522): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
>>> module_path: "xfce",
>>> Segmentation fault
>>>
>>>
>>> Thunderbird gives this when starting:
>>>
>>> (thunderbird-bin:14295): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified class 
>>> size for type `PangoXftFontMap' is smaller than the parent type's 
>>> `PangoFontMap' class size
>>>
>>> (thunderbird-bin:14295): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: 
>>> line 819 (g_object_new): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' 
>>> failed
>>>
>>> Firefox crashes with the same message except for the program name.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bob S.
>>>
>>>
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