no more desktop menu pop-up?

[Mr Machine]

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> Problem is now fixed. The test for libxfcegui4 was commented out in the 
> configure.ac file, and without libxfcegui4, the menu plugin will not load.

great - works for me!

shayne


> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>> On 1/20/2006 3:47 PM, Mr Machine wrote:
>>> sofar wrote:
>>>> I'm adding this FAQ to the FAQ - if the right-click menu is missing or suddenly the desktop wallpaper disappears - chances are that your xfdesktop program died. Here's the (updated) FAQ entry for this:
>>>>
>>>> + My desktop or desktop menu has disappeared!?
>>>>
>>>> It appears that xfdesktop is no longer in control of the desktop. Often
>>>> xfdesktop has died, or some other program took over the desktop. Make
>>>> sure that xfdesktop is still running first. Nautilus takes over the
>>>> desktop by default too. Please start nautilus with the --no-desktop
>>>> flag, or use gconfig-editor and unset the flag that tells nautilus to
>>>> handle the desktop. Start xfdesktop again and you should be OK again.
>>> very strange. xfdesktop *wasn't* running - and i couldn't get it to run
>>> unless xffm-deskview was killed :(
> 
> You can get it to run without killing xffm-deskview, but you must not 
> define a background image. This is why xffm-deskview does *not* define the 
> background. That is what xffm-root does. And that's why nautilus won't 
> kill xffm-deskview (last time I checked) when it makes it's move on the 
> desktop.
> 
>> Not surprising.  They aren't intended to coexist.  xfdesktop will quit
>> on startup if it detects another MANAGER selection owner on that screen.
>> Unfortunately, most other desktop managers aren't so polite.
>>
>>> something must have changed recently, because as far as i know they
>>> could co-exist before, but now seem to be mutually exclusive? problem is
>>> that xfdesktop doesn't give icons on the desktop, but xffm-deskview
>>> (which does put icons on desktop) no longer shows the menu pop-up on
>>> right-click - even though i've set it to do so in the file manager
>>> settings.
>> I thought Edscott added a plugin to the deskview so you could still get
>> at the menu, but I'm not sure.
> 
> No plugin at all. Personally, I do not use the xfdesktop menu plugin, but
> it's the best and prettiest I've seen.
> 
> So if libxfcegui4 is installed when compiling xffm, and xfdesktop is 
> installed any time later on, and the user defines the appropriate envars 
> with the mcs manager or otherwise, the menu plugin code is loaded and made 
> available.
> 
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