XFCE Panel Preferences causes panel to restart

[Gaël Bonithon]

Do you have empty launchers on your panel? If so remove them, it may be this bug: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/890

Cheers,
Gaël


On Saturday, January 4th, 2025 at 6:20 PM, Piscium <groknok at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I updated my Arch Linux desktop, which included updates to some
> XFCE components. Later I noticed an issue with the XFCE panel. This
> not necessarily was caused by today's update as I also updated a few
> days ago.
> 
> Description of the issue:
> If I right-click on the panel, then choose 'Panel', then 'Panel
> Preferences...', the panels (I have two) immediately restart, and I am
> not shown the Preferences dialogue box.
> If on the terminal I enter 'xfce4-panel p 1' to show the Preferences,
> the panels also restart, but in this case there is a popup dialogue
> whose screenshot I will try to send as attachment (a GDBus error,
> Remote peer disconnected).
> 
> The version of the panel is 4.20.0. My installation is somewhat
> non-standard as I use openbox as WM and don't have xfdesktop installed
> (saying this in the unlikely event this matters).
> 
> Any ideas?
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