Terminal freezes on xfdesktop --reload unless Terminal has started with --disable-server. (or Terminal is compiled w/o dbus option.) I have been unable to track down any error messages related to this event.
That's odd. Probably a terminal bug, though. If another app freezes, it's the other app's fault.
Do you have the fake transparency thing enabled in your terminal? That's the only connection between the panel and the root-window (handled by vte btw).
I checked terminal, no transparency (I couldn't see any option for it). I also checked xfdesktop and xfwm4. Turned off transparency in xfwm4. recompiled terminal with dbus option. The thing still freezes up on xfdesktop --reload. The last change to dbus was: "Wed Apr 22 06:41:27 2009 >>> sys-apps/dbus-1.2.12 merge time: 1 minute and 24 seconds." This problem just appeared. One other thing. I noticed (but can't find now) that at least 2 people reported a similar problem on the kernel list. Any info I can provide about my setup I will be happy to provide, just ask. Also if you think this should go somewhere else, please suggest where I should take it.
Created attachment 2717 backtrace of terminal I'm using terminal and xfdesktop from git. Terminal doesn't freeze, but crashes (all instances of terminal do). I managed to get a backtrace. So here it is.
Maybe related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581526 or https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590690 ?
Created attachment 2723 new bt, with some debugging symbols this time Got a new backtrace. More debugging symbols. used --sync.
Can't reproduce with xfdesktop 4.8.2 and terminal 0.4.7. So it probably can be closed for now.
I think this is related to bug #7442. Now that xfdesktop doesn't set the background anymore (on the X rootwindow), no pixmap handling is required on reload.
Closing since I can't repro this either. Reopen if needed.