xfce4 doesn't work after upgrade

soylent_green_is_hamster · 2007-02-05 20:05:00

I did a pacman -Syu today, and xfce4-svn and thunar no longer works properly.

I think thunar has been compiled with a missing library, but xfce4 is acting strangly.

My wallpaper is gone, and I can no longer right click on the desktop. If I go into the settings manager, I can check "Allow xfce to manage the desktop", but as soon as I open the window again, it has reverted to being unchecked!

I don't think this is a permission problem, I have access to all the xfce files in ~/.config

I'm also getting annoying flickering from beryl when I rotate my desktop cube. Probably unrelated though...

any help appreciated!

dtw · 2007-02-05 20:50:10

You sure it is not the dbus thing?

RaisedFist · 2007-02-05 21:09:46

I have some problems with the update too, but the only problem I got in XFCE is the fact that the pager plugin only shows me one desktop and doesn't let me set more.

xerverius · 2007-02-05 21:18:48

/me wonders why xfce4-svn is still around.....

Last edited by xerverius (2007-02-05 21:18:58)

Blind · 2007-02-05 21:33:04

...because the XFCE devs have not vanished with the release of 4.4. What else would they do but make plans for 4.6?

tomk · 2007-02-05 21:55:10

(xerverius is an XFCE dev)

Blind · 2007-02-05 22:04:21

ooops

Nevertheless, I appreciate the xfce-svn packages...I like this DE.

If only someone could tell why shutdown doesn't work anymore with the new HAL release...

Cheers!

Last edited by Blind (2007-02-05 22:06:01)

RaisedFist · 2007-02-05 22:23:27

My issue is solved. Somehow the number of workspaces was set to 1. Changed to 2, now works. I didn't think of this from the begining.

soylent_green_is_hamster · 2007-02-05 22:35:50

after messing around with this for a bit, I decided to ditch the svn pckages and go to the non-svn xfce4 packages
everything seems to work now
i still get the really annoying beryl 'cube flicker', but I'm sure the beryl devs will iron that one out...
cheers!

wideeye · 2007-02-06 00:35:13

i also have the menus disappear after a while with the new svn, both on the desktop and the taskbar menu. running xfdesktop in a term reloads the desktop menu

this is while using dbus 0.93-1

temporaryguy · 2007-02-08 17:24:23

fixed with upgrade to new xfce4.

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i'm having the same issues as the original poster: no wallpaper, no right click menu, settings for xfce4 to manage the desktop won't save after logging out. it seems like the problem is there is no libexo-hal.so.0:

sero@homer:~ $ xfdesktop 
xfdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: libexo-hal-0.3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sero@homer:~ $ locate libexo-hal
sero@homer:~ $ locate libexo
/opt/xfce4/lib/libexo-0.3.so.0.3.1
/opt/xfce4/lib/libexo-0.3.so.0
/opt/xfce4/lib/libexo-0.3.so
/opt/xfce4/lib/libexo-0.3.a

i upgraded yesterday, so it should be in the locate database by now. i looked around anyway, but i didn't see it anywhere.

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Last edited by temporaryguy (2007-02-08 19:13:41)

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xfce4 doesn't work after upgrade

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