CVS's xfdesktop & gtk-2.4.1

[Brian J. Tarricone]

please kill xfce-mcs-mananger (while X/xfce is running) and restart it 
from a terminal.  see if there is any output related to 
'backdrop_settings.so'.  the only reason xfdesktop would close right 
after running it is if it's already running.  please check your process 
list.

    -brian

Philip Scott wrote:

> 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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