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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:52 am    Post subject: xfce4 menu is gone [solved] Reply with quote

i did an update to xfce 4.6.2 today and at the next restart the menu was gone.
right-click to the xfce-panel and "add item" list does not show xfce-menu in the list, right-click on the desktop shows the menu itself as the last entry.
i reemerged all xfce-base/* packages - no success
then i deleted .config and .cache - no success (all settings gone though ^^)
i emerged all xfce-extra/* packages as a last approach - no success

now i'm out of options but to revert to my last backup... but, oh well.

any ideas?

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set the XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness menu trash" variable according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml
make sure to read every documentation on every package that will be pulled in on an emerge -Du world for changes that prevent the package from functioning like it did the last years.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I have the same issue...

xfce4-popup-menu is missing, I don't see it in all the latest XFCE installed sources.

I've found a work-around : right-click on the desktop. And assign META-L with "xfdesktop -menu" (or something like so).
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Panel plugins are only enabled by default in the desktop profile. Otherwise you need to enable them yourself.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml

Section: 2. Installing Xfce

Read about XFCE_PLUGINS variable.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks ssuominen, that was helpful... just wish I could have the last 2 hours of my life back.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you !

I didn't see any elog message about that new variable. Wouldn't be nice for users to warn them about that new configuration?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

XavierMiller wrote:
Wouldn't be nice for users to warn them about that new configuration?


indeed. some eselect news warning.
in addition i really dont understand why such things are not configured in xfce4_* like use flags and ofc why you have to tell your
desktop environment to build a basic menu plugin. that thing should be *on* by default simply because most people want that plugin.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why not just use "emerge -v" and reading the output?

[ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.6.2 USE="branding thunar -debug" LINGUAS="-be -ca -cs -da -de -el -es -et -eu -fi -fr -he -hu -it -ja -ko -nb_NO -nl -pa -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sv -tr -uk -vi -zh_CN -zh_TW" XFCE_PLUGINS="-menu" 0 kB

The "-menu" there should raise all the red flags needed.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No. Definitively no.

When you have 100 packages to update (or a fresh install), emerge -pv is not the answer.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ssuominen wrote:
Why not just use "emerge -v" and reading the output?


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haaaaaahh!!

@ssuominen
tnx! after struggling wth it for hours and hours finally your solution worked.

there's also another thread with the same solution (I found simultaneously):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/xfce4-desktop-menu-gone-from-panel-gentoo-828997/
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