Little xfdsektop/libxfce4menu question

[Brian J. Tarricone]

File a bug, please...

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 03:51:13 +0100 mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:12:56PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:29:44 +0100 mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have compiled xfdesktop with the following configure line:
> > > 
> > > 	./configure --disable-desktop-icons	\
> > > 	--disable-desktop-menu-dir-monitor	\
> > > 	--disable-menu-editor			\
> > > 	--disable-panel-plugin			\
> > > 	--enable-maintainer-mode		\
> > > 	--enable-debug=full
> > > 
> > > First let me explain why I ended with such a mess.  With the
> > > monitoring, someone did something weird at some point in a way
> > > that the menus stopped to pop up after a while.  I restarted it,
> > > several times, and I was always hit by the same issue.
> > 
> > Console output?  Is it xfdesktop hanging?  If so, gdb
> > backtrace?  C'mon... need a bit more to go on here ^_~
> 
> Attached is a console output, it doesn't seem to be useful in any way
> when the menus stop showing up.  Btw, all I can do is kill -9
> xfdesktop. A regular TERM kill doesn't work, and xfdesktop --quit
> keeps printing that main(): xfdesktop is running.
> 
> > If you're getting a hang, I suspect it's gamin that's the problem...
> 
> Mmmh, gamin continues to work without problem for other apps.
> 
> > > Now what I'm looking for is the piece of code that has the signal
> > > "activate" for the menu items, so if you could tend me a hand
> > > there, I would be glad!
> > 
> > Kinda hidden - libxfcegui4/xfce-appmenuitem.c.  Yeah, it was a lame
> > idea to put it in libgui, but... I'm lame.
> 
> Thanks ^_^
> 
> Could you help me to get debug output from libxfcegui4?  I wasn't able
> to :/  Here is what I did: compile libxfcegui4 with
> --enable-debug=full, run ldconfig, kill/start xfdesktop.
> 
> 
> > 	-brian
> 
> Cheez!
> Mike