After building xfce4 on an amd64 box, there are several items that you cannot access in the Settings Manager. (The same xfce4 install on a x86 box works flawlessly). Most notably, there are no settings for the panel. If I right click on the panel and select 'properties', I get "Multi-Channel Manager Error: No such plugin "xfce"". This same problem has occured with xfce 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.0.3. All of these builds work fine on a x86 box. My suspicion is that this is a 64 bit problem, though I'm not sure.
Additional information: platform: Gentoo Linux gcc-3.3.2-r5 glibc-2.3.3_pre20031222
I forgot to mention, the only things I see in the Settings Manager are: "Desktop: backdrop", "Desktop: workspaces", "Session management", "Window Manager", "Workspace Margines". I have installed: libxfce4mcs-4.0.3 libxfce4util-4.0.3 xfce4-4.0.3 xfce4-base-4.0.3 xfce4-panel-4.0.3 xfce4-session-0.1.1 xfce4-clipman-0.4.0 xfce4-datetime-0.2 xfce4-iconbox-4.0.3 xfce4-minicmd-0.2.0 xfce4-mixer-4.0.3 xfce4-netload-0.2.2 xfce4-notes-0.9.7 xfce4-showdesktop-0.3.0 xfce4-systemload-0.3.4 xfce4-systray-4.0.3 xfce4-toys-4.0.3 xfce4-trigger-launcher-4.0.3
I rather vote for an endianess problem. There was a somehow very similar problem alreay reported some time ago (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=842074&group_id=19869&atid=119869) What endianness does amd64 use? TIA Olivier.
Can you try to provide a bit more of information? Try this: - Kill the xfce-mcs-manager dameon - From an X terminal, restart xfce-mcs-manager - Post the messages displayed If xfce-mcs-manager can't load a plugin, it should tell why on the log. TIA Olivier.
oh, and along with a list of files you have in /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/ (or adjust to the prefix you used when you ran configure script, could be /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/ for example) TIA Olivier.
Ok, I killed the xfce-mcs-manager (-9) then restarted it at the terminal. It didn't output any messages at all. Here is an ls -al from /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71K Jan 9 11:22 backdrop_settings.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 Jan 9 11:22 backdrop_settings.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60K Jan 9 11:22 backdrop_settings.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48K Jan 9 11:23 keyboard_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3K Jan 9 11:23 keyboard_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48K Jan 12 12:29 libxfce4settings.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3K Jan 12 12:29 libxfce4settings.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97K Jan 9 11:20 libxffmsettings.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:20 libxffmsettings.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151K Jan 9 11:16 margins_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 835 Jan 9 11:16 margins_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154K Jan 9 11:16 margins_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37K Jan 9 11:23 mouse_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:23 mouse_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K Dec 4 13:11 session_settings.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 849 Dec 4 13:11 session_settings.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39K Dec 4 13:11 session_settings.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39K Jan 9 11:23 ui_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:23 ui_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K Jan 9 11:22 workspaces_settings.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 870 Jan 9 11:22 workspaces_settings.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40K Jan 9 11:22 workspaces_settings.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23K Jan 9 11:29 xfcalendar_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:29 xfcalendar_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44K Jan 9 11:25 xfce4-iconbox_settings.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:25 xfce4-iconbox_settings.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32K Jan 9 11:24 xftaskbar_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:24 xftaskbar_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jan 9 11:16 xfwm4_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 821 Jan 9 11:16 xfwm4_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68K Jan 9 11:16 xfwm4_plugin.so
I should also mention that these don't seem to be the only problems.. the taskbar doesn't seem to work at all (windows don't show up on it), and the 'add new item' on the panel menu doesn't list all the items it should. I was asking in #xfce on freenode about it, someone told me the problems were known and would be fixed shortly. Someone pointed me to www.moongroup.com, who apprarently had solved the problems by running the following set of commands to build with: /bin/touch NEWS /usr/bin/libtoolize --force /usr/bin/aclocal /usr/bin/automake configure make LIBTOOL=/usr/bin/libtool I've tried this on several modules and it doesn't seem to help.
oh, and the athlon64 is little endian, so it's probably not an endian problem unless you code on an old mac or something :)
Can you try those sources: http://xfce.org/archive/test/experimental/ These have been built using a more recent version of libtool, automake, and autoconf.
These seem to work! I now have settings for most things in the mcs manager, the taskbar works properly, and I have most things on the 'add new item' menu. The only things that I either don't have settings for or aren't in the 'add new item' menu are those that either weren't in the experimental dir you pointed me to or were in there but the CRC was the same as the old file I had.
Can this bug be closed?
I would say yes, I haven't had these problems since, and newer builds work fine on both 64 bit boxes at work
Fix confirmed by reporter
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