Empty Xfce (4.1.90) Menu on panel

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Nov 2 21:10:33 CET 2004


On 11/02/04 08:36, George Garvey wrote:
>    I installed 4.1.90 on Gentoo on my system to check it out. Then I
> installed it on another user's system to see their response. I put
> Xfce Menu on the panel so they would be more comfortable with finding
> it where they expected it. But their's is empty (It display a very
> little grey box that looks like it may be about 5 pixels by 2). Mine
> is not, and displays the menu.
>    The desktop menu is available, so they're able to use the system.
>    Where could I start looking to figure out what I did wrong on their
> system?

well, first check the menu file that's listed in the menu plugin's
settings.  if the file doesn't exist, there's your problem.  let me know
what it turns out to be; it occurs to me that i may have set the default
to be the user's custom menu, which won't be present in a new install.


>    Also, in .xession-errors, they have a message that I don't have:
> 
> (xfce4-panel:10417): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkdraw.c: line 412
> (gdk_draw_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed

this is unrelated.



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