CVS's xfdesktop & gtk-2.4.1

[Philip Scott]

I just updated everything and can also see this behaviour. "which" tells
me that xfce-mcs-manager and xfdesktop are both in /usr/bin/ so it's not 
that. I've lost the "Desktop" (or anything like it) section in settings, 
the panel menu plugin, desktop right-clicking, and my wallpaper is just 
plain black now. Middle-click and scrolling work as before.
Running xfdesktop from a terminal does nothing, no errors or anything, 
It just closes straight after running.
I just tried with a fresh user, and there was no difference.

I'm running gtk+-2.4.0 (Gentoo's -r1, if that makes a difference), so 
it's not just a 2.4.1 issue.


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> ok, sorry i haven't gotten to this, but now that this is come up, i 
> wanted to set up a vmware container so i can do a fresh xfce install.  
> but of course i'm having vmware issues...
> 
> you should have a prefs panel in the settings manager called "Desktop".  
> if you don't, then you most likely installed xfdesktop to a prefix 
> different than that of xfce-mcs-manager (which you can't do). if that's 
> not the case, but you still have the old "Backdrop Settings" or 
> "Desktop: backdrop" prefs panel (or whatever it's called in 4.0.x), but 
> not the new one, likely you just haven't restarted xfce-mcs-manager 
> since compiling and so it's still using the old panel.
> 
> if there's no settings panel, there are no config files, as the settings 
> panel creates them on first load.
> 
> again, sorry for the delay on this; hopefully i'll have a solution for 
> you before the day is out.
> 
>    -brian
> 
> 
> Bradee-oh! wrote:
> 
>> I was going to spend some time this morning "messing around with the 
>> settings" of xfdesktop, but where can I do that?  lol
>>
>> there is no entry in the settings manager for xfdesktop.  I'm 
>> scratching my brain trying to remember if 4.0.5 had an entry for the 
>> desktop.
>>
>> Alternately, there must be some config files to hack somewhere - I'll 
>> go hunting around for them...
>>
>> -Brady
>>
>> > Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>> have you messed around with the settings?  i still haven't had a 
>>> chance to do my own testing...  perhaps tomorrow.
>>>
>>>    -brian
>>>
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