terminal and panel's mcs plugins race condition

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Wed Aug 25 22:42:34 CEST 2004


I would like to know what's really happening though. Might be related to
the memory corruption spotted by Olivier.

	Jasper


Eduard Roccatello wrote:
> Hello Jasper,
> 
> i've experienced a race condition caused by MCS Settings Manager when
> using terminal and panel mcs plugins.
> 
> The channel used by panel is "xfce4" and terminal's one is
> "xfce4-terminal". If you take a look to panel.xml and terminal.xml
> you will find the same things... That's truly odd!!!
> 
> The panel stops responding to MCS settings change when this happens.
> I've changed terminal channel in "terminal" (settings/settings.h) and i
> think you should change panel's one into "panel" or something similar
> :-)
> 
> Quit xfce, delete or fix panel.xml and terminal.xml, restart and it is
> all ok :-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> PS: this should close some bugs in the bug manager ^_^
> 
> 





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