xfdesktop woes

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:29, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:

> There was a bug in xfdesktop or xfce4-sesession that caused some
> applications (and xfdesktop in particular) to be started several (up to
> a few dozen) times. I think that was fixed but I'm not sure the fix was
> part of the 4.6.1 release. Brian?

Not unless someone else fixed it.  Oddly, no one's been complaining
about it for some time, though.

>> - log in takes far more time then before the 4.6.1 upgrade,
>
> Hmm, not sure about this one. Again, we had a bug slowing the login
> process down dramatically (took up to 20+ seconds on some machines). We
> fixed that too, but I'd have to look at the revision log to check
> *when* it was fixed.

One problem related to slow login was fixed (xfce4-settings-helper
causing SM timeouts), but sometimes I still get a slow login too.
Haven't had a chance to look into it.

>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>
> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
> with xfdesktop itself.

Especially if this guy is on Gentoo like I believe he stated -- there
was recently a move from the years-long-stable libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
Likely the OP just didn't properly rebuild all reverse-dependencies.

     -brian