question re: xfdesktop 4.4.1

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed May 16 20:26:30 CEST 2007


On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:09:18 -0400 Jason Keltz wrote:

>I compiled dbus with my xfce install, and dbus-glib, and it does work. 
>However, when I select "File/launcher icons" from the Desktop setup, I 
>get a window that comes up that says:
>
>Trash Error
>
>Unable to contact the Xfce Trash service.
>
>Make sure you have a file manager installed that supports the Xfce
>Trash service, such as Thunar.
>
>The thing is, after I close that box, it seems like everything is 
>working.  I get the trash on my desktop, and can use it.  Of course
>I'm using Thunar.

No idea - usually that results from a race condition: the thunar daemon
needs to start up before xfdesktop (assuming dbus auto-activation isn't
working).  I'm not really sure why it still works, though.  File a bug?

	-brian



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