Xfdesktop menu

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Brian J. Tarricone schrieb:

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>Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
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>>Brian J. Tarricone schrieb:
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>>>Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
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>>>>Hey all.
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>>>>I recently checked out /trunk (in fact, that's been only few minutes 
>>>>ago), build it and installed it.
>>>>The only problem I'm having now is that there's no desktop menu, neither 
>>>>on the desktop itself, nor
>>>>when clicking on the Xfce menu button in the panel.
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>>>Please kill xfdesktop, then run it from a terminal and see if there's
>>>any useful output.
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>>I'm sorry for forgetting that. But here's the output.
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>>jannis at nebelsee ~ 533 $ xfdesktop
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>>** (xfdesktop:14927): CRITICAL **: XfceDesktopMenu init failed (The 
>>XfceDesktopM enu module could not be loaded: libxfcegui4.so.3: cannot 
>>open shared object file : Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)
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>>** (xfdesktop:14927): WARNING **: xfdesktop: Unable to initialise menu 
>>module. R ight-click menu will be unavailable.
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>>libxfcegui4.so.3 doesn't exist in /usr/local/lib (where I installed the 
>>Xfce libraries to). However, libxfcegui4.so.4 exists. Although I'm a 
>>developer (not of Xfce) by myself I didn't read so much about library 
>>naming in Linux. Is anybody able to explain the problem?
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>You need to recompile xfdesktop and be sure that the menu module links
>to the correct library.  This situation can happen any time an
>incompatible change occurs to one of the libraries such that it requires
>a major version bump.
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Hum, I can recompile but how do I make sure the menu module is linked to 
the correct
library? Something else I did was to create a symbolic link 
libxfcegui4.so.3 => libxfcegui4.so.4
but that didn't work.

Regards,
Jannis