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no menus available upon desktop mouse click
Status:
RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
Product:
Xfdesktop
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Description Alex 2004-10-31 22:01:48 CET
Hello,

When I right click or center click over the desktop, I get no menus. Impossible
to launch applications or change desktops.

I'm using a mdk 10.0
Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.1.91 installed with the installer script
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-10-31 22:50:58 CET
sorry about the missing version selection in bugzilla; fixed.

can you verify that xfdesktop is running? could you please kill and run
xfdesktop from a terminal and paste any output you receive?  are the window list
menu and applications menu enabled from the Desktop settings panel?
Comment 2 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-10-31 22:54:00 CET
also, please don't change the dependency information on a bug.
Comment 3 Alex 2004-11-01 16:02:38 CET
> please don't change the dependency information on a bug.

Sorry, thought it was helpfull, but I now realize it's not. Better just to
mention  the other bug number.

>are the window list menu and applications menu enabled from the Desktop
settings panel?

yes, I enabled everything

> can you verify that xfdesktop is running?

when I do 

#ps -A 

I can't see any xfdesktop process running

This is what I get if I try to launch it:

$ xfdesktop
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
xfdesktop: art_render_gradient.c:338: art_render_gradient_linear_render_8:
Assertion `offset_fraction <= stops[ix].offset' failed.
Aborted

I tried to launch xfdesktop as root and I got it to work:

# xfdesktop 
** Message: xfdesktop: running without session manager

Now I get my usual background picture, and the menus are there (right click and
middle click menu)

So the problem is that xfdesktop is not launched when I log in, I don't know why...
Comment 4 Alex 2004-11-01 18:35:57 CET
Update:

I took another look at what's happening, and I realised that when I issue the
command xfdesktop fromm root I'm calling the xfdesktop command from my previous
install of xfce (4.03). If instead I go to the /usr/local/bin and I run
./xfdesktop, I get the same error as mentioned before.

So there is really a problem to launch xfdesktop 4.02 beta.
Comment 5 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-11-02 01:10:14 CET
1) please don't run xfdesktop as root; i can't guarantee that it's secure enough
for that purpose (certainly gtk+ itself isn't).
2) this is a libart_lgpl bug.  please see comments on bug 340

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 340 ***

Bug #424

Reported by:
Alex
Reported on: 2004-10-31
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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