Little xfdsektop/libxfce4menu question

[mmassonnet at gmail.com]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:32:40AM +0100, mike wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:35:19PM -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > File a bug, please...
> 
> Will be done ;)

For the record those are 3652 3653.

> > 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
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