Cygwin 1.7 - xfce can't find menu plugin - any ideas?

Rick rbonafied at gmail.com
Fri Jun 4 01:27:59 CEST 2010


On 05/31/2010 05:14 PM, Rick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First some good news - I was able to successfully compile xfce 4.6.2 in
> the Cygwin 1.7 environment. I'm able to start xfce and see the panel,
> desktop interface, window list, etc.
>
> However, the menu interface doesn't appear to be working. Is there a
> setting or something I missed?
>
> Output with error:
>
> $ startxfce4
> /opt/xfce46/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server
>
> <stdin>:1:3: error invalid preprocessing directive #Those
> <stdin>:2:3: error invalid preprocessing directive #or
> <stdin>:3:3: error invalid preprocessing directive #Xft
> <stdin>:4:3: error invalid preprocessing directive #Xft
> Agent pid 2284
> xfdesktop[2444]: starting up
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-Failed to connect to
> socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-
>
> ** (xfdesktop:2444): CRITICAL **: XfceDestkopMenu init failed (The
> XfceDesktopMenu module could not be loaded: No such file or directory)
>
> ** (xfdesktop:2444): WARNING **: xfdesktop: Unable to initialise menu
> module. Right-click menu will be unavailable.
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For what it's worth, I tried adding xfce/libexec to the path in the 
hopes the menu module would be found but it didn't help.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Please?

Thanks,
Rick



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