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Changing the "command" field of any launcher crashes panels
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RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-panel
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Description LIAR 2019-10-04 10:47:29 CEST
Created attachment 9080 
Video demonstration of panel crashing when editing the command filed of a launcher

Settings : 
- XFCE 4.12
- Dual monitors (with duplicated top panels & bottom dock, as there is currently no other possibility to replicate panels on several monitors)
- Need to be able to switch 

What I do:
- Right click on a launcher in bottom dock + Properties
- Click On "edit" icon
- Change the "command" field
- Save

What happens:
- all panels get closed and reloaded
- (but changes to launcher are saved)

What should happen
- panels should not crash
- changes should still be saved
Comment 1 LIAR 2019-10-04 11:03:20 CEST
Sorry I cannot find how to edit my initial text:

I didn't finish one sentence:
"- Need to be able to switch "
=>
"- I need to be able to switch on/off a proxy when I move my laptop from cable (on) to wifi (off). 
    * As I didn't find a convenient way to do that with XFCE (*), I wrote a 2 scripts : one that toggles the proxy system-wide by creating/removing the empty /tmp/PROXY_ACTIVATED file, the other that sets/unsets the http[s]_proxy env variables (according to the existence or not of the /tmp/PROXY_ACTIVATED file) then run the command passed as argument.
   * Then, I need the launchers of firefox/thunderbird/falkon/chrome to execute the "command" field via this script rather than directly"

Apart from the panels crashes, this settings works perfectly.

I provide all this information for 2 reasons:
- as I think my using of scripts (user owned & executable, full path used in launcher's command field) in the "command" field of launcher might be the source of the trouble for the panels
- (*) other people confronted with proxies might be interested by the settings, since XFCE lacks simple way to manage it (editing "connections" proposes only "None" or "Automatic" as proxy settings...).
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 02:16:40 CEST
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Bug #16010

Reported by:
LIAR
Reported on: 2019-10-04
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

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Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
0 users

Version

Version:
4.12.0

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