Xfdesktop menu

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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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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>>>>	-brian
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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?

If you're on Linux, you can use 'ldd' to check library linkage.  I don't
know about other OSes.

> Something else I did was to create a symbolic link
> libxfcegui4.so.3 => libxfcegui4.so.4
> but that didn't work.

Odd, that actually should have worked (though it's not a recommended fix).

	-brian

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