[gentoo-user] Problems with XFCE probably after last update

[gentoo-user] Problems with XFCE probably after last update

[Alexey Eschenko]

Hi everyone.

I'm experiencing some strange problems after last XFCE update on my 
desktop system (and less on my laptop).

1. (desktop only) After DE startup I'm encountering error message 
telling me that Notification Area plugin unexceptedly stopped (or 
something like that) with two options: execute it again and remove from 
the panel.
1.1. Restarting does not help on regular basis. One time it works, but 
next time it keeps showing this dialogue window again and again until I 
close it (and notifications disappears from the panel).

2. (desktop and laptop) Some icons in "Launcher" plugin now doesn't 
shows (see: 
https://storage4.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0828/h_1503929343_8878570_d6da7a7763.png 
). Some of them are detected natively from default application icons and 
some of them was added/changed by me to ICO/PNG files.
2.1. Some icons are still shown in the Launcher settings while not shown 
in the pannel in the end (see: 
https://storage1.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0828/h_1503929483_5621165_a51b37f6fd.png 
)

3. (desktop only) At the same time when I first encountered problem #1 I 
also discovered that "qTox" messenger now starts in two instances when 
on previous system boot it was only one. There is only one instance of 
"qTox" in the "Session and Startup" -> "Application Autostart". May be 
XFCE now fails to merge "Session" and "Application Autostart" data to 
prevent this type of situations? Strange thing is: this bug encounters 
only with qTox. Nothing else runs twice (at least I didn't see anything 
like that).

-- 
Kind regards,
Alexey Eschenko
https://skobk.in/

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with XFCE probably after last update

[Alexey Eschenko]

Seems like part of my problems with XFCE are somehow related with Dropbox.

I have now installed net-misc/dropbox-34.4.20 (older version have same 
issue). If Dropbox is started than I'm seeing the error message and 
loosing the notification area. Even if I try to add it to the panel 
again it will fail to start. If I then kill dropbox process then 
notification area became available to start without any errors.

I managed to reproduce same behavior on my laptop.

I don't think it's dropbox-only problem. Seems like dropbox only causing 
some bug in XFCE panel to show itself.


On 08/28/2017 05:17 PM, Alexey Eschenko wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm experiencing some strange problems after last XFCE update on my 
> desktop system (and less on my laptop).
>
> 1. (desktop only) After DE startup I'm encountering error message 
> telling me that Notification Area plugin unexceptedly stopped (or 
> something like that) with two options: execute it again and remove 
> from the panel.
> 1.1. Restarting does not help on regular basis. One time it works, but 
> next time it keeps showing this dialogue window again and again until 
> I close it (and notifications disappears from the panel).
>
> 2. (desktop and laptop) Some icons in "Launcher" plugin now doesn't 
> shows (see: 
> https://storage4.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0828/h_1503929343_8878570_d6da7a7763.png 
> ). Some of them are detected natively from default application icons 
> and some of them was added/changed by me to ICO/PNG files.
> 2.1. Some icons are still shown in the Launcher settings while not 
> shown in the pannel in the end (see: 
> https://storage1.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0828/h_1503929483_5621165_a51b37f6fd.png 
> )
>
> 3. (desktop only) At the same time when I first encountered problem #1 
> I also discovered that "qTox" messenger now starts in two instances 
> when on previous system boot it was only one. There is only one 
> instance of "qTox" in the "Session and Startup" -> "Application 
> Autostart". May be XFCE now fails to merge "Session" and "Application 
> Autostart" data to prevent this type of situations? Strange thing is: 
> this bug encounters only with qTox. Nothing else runs twice (at least 
> I didn't see anything like that).
>

-- 
Kind regards,
Alexey Eschenko
https://skobk.in/