*necessary* applets bork when starting Gnome

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-29 22:10:34

When I start Gnome, four rather important applets - the taskbar, window list, desktop pager, and "show desktop" applet - fail to start, with the following message:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_FooApplet".
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

Where "FooApplet" is the name of the applet (e.g. WindowListApplet).

It's rather tricky to use Gnome without a taskbar or a window list... Could someone explain what went wrong here, and how I can correct it?

phrakture · 2005-12-29 22:50:10

Maybe it's a gconf thing? try moving ~/.gconf or something similar.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-29 23:32:36

Tried removing ~/.gconf already, no dice. Same with ~/.gnome*.

WillySilly · 2005-12-30 00:45:18

I believe it actually might be a problem with bonobo

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-30 01:05:18

Really? That is very strange, I've never had this problem before with the current version of bonobo.

Is there a known workaround?

WillySilly · 2005-12-30 01:45:56

While in gnome try running bonobo-slay then restart gnome

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-30 03:46:57

It's no-go. The error messages are still there, and the applets still refuse to appear.

iphitus · 2005-12-30 05:13:31

Update.

Shutdown gnome, wipe all configs with:
rm -rf ~/.gnome* ~/.gconf*
(note the asterisk, theres .gconfd and .gconf. Theres also multiple .gnome*)

Do something to make sure no old processes from gnome are running, either look in top or pstree and kill em, or just reboot.

Start KDE errr GNOME.

JGC · 2005-12-30 10:12:47

These applets are served by the wnck applet. Try this from a terminal:

ldd /opt/gnome/libexec/wnck-applet | grep -i found

I think it will return some missing library on your system, install it and file a bug if this is true for you.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-30 20:15:40

Bingo.

libXRes.so.1 => not found

It's one of those X11 libraries, and xorg-server should depend on it. Filing a bug now.

JGC · 2005-12-31 00:30:47

Seems something went wrong with closing the bug...

The reason why xorg-server provides x-server and doesn't depend on libxres is because we want all packages to have these things fixed ASAP. I tracked these problems down in libbonoboui and libwnck, they depend on the right libraries now. I did not add libxres to xorg-server, as it's not needed for xorg-server to function.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-31 00:54:35

Cool. When are the new versions due in the repos?

Arch Linux

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