taskbar text issue after crash

[Olivier Fourdan]

Matt Price wrote:

> My computer crashed a couple of weeks ago due to a hardware problem,
> -- so it crashed pretty hard.  Nonetheless the system is mostly ok,
> but now I have a wierd problem with text in the taskbar (I think it's
> the taskbar -- the list of windows that lives by default at the top
> ofthe screen).  When a window has a long title -- usually this happens
> with firefox -- the text used to be truncatedto fit into the
> boundaries oft he button representingthat window.  Now however the
> text is no longer shortened, so that a wondow might say: 
> " this is an html page with very long title - firefox"
> which runs over the edge of the box & leads to a very messy, almosti
> ndescipherable display.  I assume that this problem is a result of
> some corrupted file in my settings directory, but I don't know which
> one it might be nor how to fix it.  Can anyone make any suggestions?
> thanksd,

Actually it has nothing to do with the crash, but with a gtk+ upgrade.

You need to upgrade to the latest xfce 4.2.3.x if you use gtk+-2.8

Cheers,
Olivier.