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Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

dummy@example.com (OS Stuntman) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:11:10 +0000

Hello,

Rephrase: Where should I get libxfce4panel-1.0.so.4 if I'm using Linux Mint 13? It has been a while since I rolled my own, and that was for FreeBSD 5 .

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

dummy@example.com (tedbell) — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:41:31 +0000

Doesn't seem to work. Not sure how I'd compile it myself either.

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

dummy@example.com (Ahau) — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:31:34 +0000

Yeah, the apps ought to be recompiled against Xfce 4.10 (which uses libxfce4-panel-1.0.so.4 instead of ...so.3)

What distribution are you using? Whoever provided you with packages for 4.10 might have also prepared packages for the panel plugins. If not, you can take a run at compiling them yourself, or you might be able to get away with symlinking to the newer library (e.g. cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/; ln -s libxfce4panel-1.0.so.4.0.0 libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3) -- not really how it ought to be done, though.

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

dummy@example.com (tedbell) — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:31:42 +0000

Ahau wrote:

Please try starting them from a command line and see what error message you get when they fail to start. More than likely, they need to be recompiled against the updated xfce libraries in 4.10 (unless they already have been).

Not sure how to do this. I entered the name of , for example, the xfce4 weather plugin package in terminal but I got ommand not found. Where do I get the actual name of the program?

EDIT: I ran panel from CLI and tried to add a plugin and here's what I got.

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin: error while loading shared libraries: libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
xfce4-panel-Message: Plugin weather-7 has been automatically restarted after crash.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin: error while loading shared libraries: libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like an easy fix. Is it?

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

dummy@example.com (Ahau) — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:06:34 +0000

Please try starting them from a command line and see what error message you get when they fail to start. More than likely, they need to be recompiled against the updated xfce libraries in 4.10 (unless they already have been).

XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

dummy@example.com (tedbell) — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:28:03 +0000

Hi,

I am new to this forum and I am having trouble with the new XFCE.

I am getting tis error message when I try to add most of my pluging to the new 4.10:

Plugin "Weather Update" unexpectedly left the panel, do you want to restart it?
The plugin restarted more than once in the last 60 seconds. If you press Execute the panel will try to restart the plugin otherwise it will be permanently removed from the panel.

I tried googling this error but only a handful of sites come up with only 1 about xfce. Leads me to believe it's something I did.

Is there any way to fix this?

I ave the xfce goodies installed.

Other than this it works great and has nice new features. MIME type GUI among others.

Thanks