xfce upgrade kills xfce menus

Zhihao Yuan lichray at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 03:18:12 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
> Woah thanks for finding this out! I'll fix this immediatly!
>
>
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> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>
>>> OK. This problem has been solved.
>>>
>>> In the previous version, xfce4's script, startxfce4 requires a patch
>>> to work, which corrects the XDG_DATA_DIRS. In 4.8, this patch is not
>>> needed -- but since it was added as a post-patch command in the
>>> Makefile of the port, no one noticed that. And the command causes the
>>> problem. Now comment out the port-patch part of the file
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-utils/Makefile, and rebuild this port, then
>>> both icons and menus works.
>>
>> Excellent!  That brought back all the menus and icons!
>>
>>> If you know who manages this port, please forward this mail to him. Thx.
>>
>> Added to cc list.  'make maintainer' will show the maintainer for any
>> given port.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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Well, another big issue. Please help me to perform the test: in the
Settings/Desktop/Menus, when "Show applications menu on desktop right
click" option is checked, see whether xfdesktop process consume 100% cpu
in your `top` (on my system, it increases to 100).

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Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.


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