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xfcalendar fails to load
Status:
CLOSED: FIXED

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Description Jason Keltz 2005-02-18 14:25:16 CET
When starting with a new .config, if I try to start up "xfcalendar", it seems to
hang.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. erase .config
2. login
3. run xfcalendar from command line

Actual Results:  
xfcalendar hung and did not display the calendar window

Expected Results:  
should have shown the calendar, of course.

see attachment of strace.
Comment 1 Jason Keltz 2005-02-18 14:28:14 CET
Created attachment 184 
start up xfcalendar - it hangs on a poll and after a while, I kill it.
Comment 2 juha editbugs 2005-02-18 21:22:20 CET
Actually it may not hand, it just may be invisible.
Could you show what you have in your home directory
.config/xfce4/xfcalendar

If you have there 
hide
tru changing it to 
show

Do yo use clock panel plugin or systray ?
Comment 3 Jason Keltz 2005-02-18 21:32:53 CET
It seems to work most if not all of the time when I call it up by clicking on
the clock.  I don't think there has been a time when that has not worked.
I'm talking about erasing the entire ".config" structure, and then just running
"xfcalendar" from an xterm window after restarting xfce and it just hangs.  It
doesn't do it all the time, but it seems much more likely to happen if I start
with a fresh configuration.  Maybe you can try from a fresh configuration as
well, and see if you get the same result.

Comment 4 juha editbugs 2005-02-18 23:12:10 CET
Can't get it hang. Tried again.
Just to be sure, could you show what:
$ xfwm4 --version
        This is xfwm4 version 4.2.0 for Xfce 4.2.0
        built with GTK+-2.4.13, linked with GTK+-2.4.13.
shows.
Comment 5 juha editbugs 2005-02-18 23:26:13 CET
show also the contents of 
cat .config/xfce4/xfcalendar/xfcalendarrc
I would like to be sure it is not just hiding (instead of hanging).

clicking the clock a few times does not help ?
Comment 6 Jason Keltz 2005-02-21 13:00:30 CET
xfwm4 --version shows:
        This is xfwm4 version 4.2.0 for Xfce 4.2.0
        built with GTK+-2.6.2, linked with GTK+-2.6.2.

cat .config/xfce4/xfcalendar/xfcalendarrc shows:

[Session Visibility]
hide

You are absolutely correct.  Changing this to "show" shows the calendar.
Why would the default configuration be to "hide"?  This makes it so that when
you start xfcalendar from the command prompt that it seems to "hang".  I'm sure
there must be a reason, but why would anyone "hide" it?

Thanks,

jas.
Comment 7 juha editbugs 2005-02-21 16:47:35 CET
Idea was that xfcalendar usually just runs in the background and does it alarms.
It can quickly be activated by clikcing the clock or the systray. That was the
idea. But in 4.2.1 this default has been changed. 

In the new version all these paramaters are visible in the genaral parameter
screen and default is alwasy visible in all places.

Anyway, It now works as planned.
Comment 8 Jason Keltz 2005-02-22 02:00:45 CET
Hi.

Is it not a bug that if I place in 
SYSDIR/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfcalendar/xfcalendarrc a file that contains:

[Session Visibility]
show

... that when I start xfcalendar for the first time 
(where .config/xfce4/xfcalendar does not exist) that it does not import the 
global default of having a "show"? (And I instead get the same file with 
a "hide").

thanks..
Comment 9 juha editbugs 2005-03-22 07:12:48 CET
New parameters released in 4.2.1
Comment 10 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2007-01-26 18:58:37 CET
Moving all bugs to new Orage product.

Bug #782

Reported by:
Jason Keltz
Reported on: 2005-02-18
Last modified on: 2007-01-26

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korbinus
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