CVS's xfdesktop & gtk-2.4.1

[Robert Kruus]

For those in gentoo land, adding:
cd ${S}
./autogen.sh
to the src_compile section of the ebuild fixes the the problem.  You can ignore
the errors that show up.
The versions of libtool, autmake and autoconf presently in gentoo are slightly
older than the ones given by Olivier on the xfce site.

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On Sun, 09 May 2004 17:28:28 -0400
It is rumored "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> 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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