CVS's xfdesktop & gtk-2.4.1

[Olivier Fourdan]

We do provide the libtool and other autoconf/automake we use to build
our packages here if needed:

http://www.xfce.org/archive/tools/

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 23:28, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> ah... you have a libtool problem.  what version are you running?  i'd 
> suggest upgrading to whatever is latest.  if you can't get it to work, 
> run 'make distclean' in the xfdesktop dir, and run autogen.sh.
> 
>     -brian
> 
> Robert Kruus wrote:
> 
> >I'm having the same problem (filed a bugreport as well).
> >Running xfce-setting-show backdrop gives
> >
> >Multi-Channel Manager Error:
> >No such plugin "backdrop"
> >
> >There is no backdrop_settings.so created for some reason, but renaming the
> >backdrop_settings file with the .so extension solves the problem (in
> >/usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins directory).
> >
> >Rob
> >
> >On Sun, 09 May 2004 14:57:08 -0400
> >It is rumored "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>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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