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Messagebox (no running instance)
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Product:
Xfce4-panel

Comments

Description FrancescoA 2010-12-12 13:58:31 CET
Since updating to ubuntu natty narwhal, three or four times following messagebox appears:


Failed to restart the panel
No running instance of xfce4-panel was found

then after confirming, xfce seems to run correctly
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-12-12 15:09:49 CET
What happens if you save your session on logout and login again.
Comment 2 FrancescoA 2010-12-12 20:56:04 CET
Unfortunatly, it makes no difference. I tried several times, with [x] Save Session and alternating not save session.
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-12-13 13:59:45 CET
Well somehow multiple calls of "xfce4-panel -r" were made. I could fix it by auto starting a new panel if no running instance was found when launching "xfce4-panel -r", but in some cases it could be unsafe (miscommunication with dbus for example).
Comment 4 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-12-13 14:02:27 CET
You could take a look in ~/.cache/sessions, see if there are multiple calls of xfce4-panel, possibly with arguments, maybe even something related in ~/.config/autostart/.
Comment 5 FrancescoA 2010-12-13 14:21:32 CET
Ok, thanks, I will look at evening. If this is not the case (the .cache and .config directory shows no multiple calls) and you could apply a safe fix, that would be good.
Comment 6 FrancescoA 2010-12-13 14:25:23 CET
BTW: The bug (task window appear twice: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6985): I'm not sure if this is desktop or panel (or something in xfce core (what modul is this actually)?
Comment 7 FrancescoA 2010-12-13 18:35:37 CET
Cool, now it is working. I cleaned the directory of sessions (there were many entries). I also removed from session startup the "xfce setttings helper" (no hunch, what it actually does). Thank you!
Comment 8 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-12-13 19:59:31 CET
settings helper handles various settings like display/mouse/keyboard etc.
Comment 9 FrancescoA 2010-12-14 12:26:36 CET
ok, thank you again.
Comment 10 FrancescoA 2010-12-14 20:11:54 CET
Created attachment 3277 
double picture of taskswitcher window

every time i hit alt-tab
Comment 11 FrancescoA 2010-12-14 20:14:26 CET
Oops sorry, wrong task

Bug #6972

Reported by:
FrancescoA
Reported on: 2010-12-12
Last modified on: 2010-12-14

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
1 user

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double picture of taskswitcher window (34.22 KB, image/png)
2010-12-14 20:11 CET , FrancescoA
no flags

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