[Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

rockford · 2015-08-26 08:44:57

Hello,

when I login (xubuntu 15.05 32bit) (I am sudoer), my panel tries to enter edit mode immidiately, but I get an errormessage, that I cant enter edit mode, because I m in kiosk mode (but I m not).
When I acknowledge this message, the panel enters the edit mode (with red dashed line around). I have to change something in the Panes properties, then it leaves the editmode.
But on next login it reenters the editmode (and the kiosk mode warning).

Only my account has this problem.

It appeared, when I deleted a second panel on the bottom of my screen.
Reboot doesnt help, saving session doesnt help, deleting session doesnt help.
Is there a(n) file/entry in my user settings, that wasnt deleted somehow, when I deleted the second panel and now it persitst?

Any help would be nice.

Last way out could be: to delete my account and recreate it.

thanks, rockford.

ToZ · 2015-08-27 02:16:31

rockford wrote:

(I am sudoer)

What does this mean? Are you logging in as root?

my panel tries to enter edit mode immidiately, but I get an errormessage, that I cant enter edit mode, because I m in kiosk mode (but I m not).
When I acknowledge this message, the panel enters the edit mode (with red dashed line around). I have to change something in the Panes properties, then it leaves the editmode.
But on next login it reenters the editmode (and the kiosk mode warning).

Do you have xfce4-panel in your autostart files (or more specifically, "xfce4-panel -p")?

What do the following return?

ls -l ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/

head -5  ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

rockford · 2015-08-28 14:17:03

ToZ wrote:

rockford wrote:
(I am sudoer)
What does this mean? Are you logging in as root?

No, but Im able to start programms as root with sudo command (root login is disabled by default in ubuntu).

ToZ wrote:

rockford wrote:
my panel tries to enter edit mode immidiately, but I get an errormessage, that I cant enter edit mode, because I m in kiosk mode (but I m not).
When I acknowledge this message, the panel enters the edit mode (with red dashed line around). I have to change something in the Panes properties, then it leaves the editmode.
But on next login it reenters the editmode (and the kiosk mode warning).
Do you have xfce4-panel in your autostart files (or more specifically, "xfce4-panel -p")?

Yes it autostarts, the command line (form ps aux) is
xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 294094c03-0865-410b-9658-80c1d04e06e7

ToZ wrote:

What do the following return?
ls -l ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/

:~$ ls -l ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/
insgesamt 80
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 2010 Mai  9  2013 displays.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang  203 Apr  4  2013 keyboards.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang  353 Nov 30  2013 pointers.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang  272 Apr  8  2013 ristretto.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 2917 Aug 26 10:16 thunar.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 1816 Okt  3  2013 xfce4-appfinder.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 6540 Aug 26 10:20 xfce4-desktop.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 9850 Apr  4  2013 xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 4057 Dez 15  2014 xfce4-mixer.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 5771 Aug 28 15:59 xfce4-panel.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang  234 Apr  9  2013 xfce4-power-manager.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 1187 Apr 27  2013 xfce4-session.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang  276 Nov 27  2014 xfce4-settings-manager.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 5327 Mai  5 23:35 xfwm4.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 1968 Mai 21 20:56 xsettings.xml

ToZ wrote:

head -5  ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

:~$ head -5  ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<channel name="xfce4-panel" version="1.0">
  <property name="configver" type="int" value="2"/>
  <property name="panels" type="array">

rockford · 2015-08-28 14:51:59

Hello,

I overlooked an other error message at login, seems, this is the key to the problem.
When I dont close the "you are in kiosk mode and cant edit" dialog, this second dialog opens again and again (6 times:

Error
"Could not open Settings Dialog (translation from german)
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: 
the remote application did not send a reply, 
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, 
the reply timeout expired, 
or the network connection was broken."

When I leave them open and do a ps aux |grep panel
I get:

wolfgang  5990  0.6  1.3 116512 27484 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 294094c03-0865-410b-9658-80c1d04e06e7
wolfgang  5991  0.2  1.1 106396 24276 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 xfce4-panel --preferences --socket-id=25166831 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 22180ee8e-09f5-453d-9d51-5363996a0dce
wolfgang  6334  0.2  1.1 106396 24544 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 xfce4-panel --preferences --socket-id=25166831 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 22180ee8e-09f5-453d-9d51-5363996a0dce
wolfgang  6679  0.1  1.1 105980 23604 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 xfce4-panel --preferences --socket-id=25166831 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 22180ee8e-09f5-453d-9d51-5363996a0dce
wolfgang  6720  0.0  0.8  29488 17672 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libactions.so 2 27263163 actions Aktionsknöpfe Abmelden, sperren oder andere Systemaktionen 
wolfgang  6736  0.0  0.8 109400 17384 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libplaces.so 21 27263167 places Orte Auf Ordner, Dokumente und entfernbare Medien zugreifen 
wolfgang  6759  2.3  0.6  34056 14044 ?        Sl   16:26   0:03 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-sensors-plugin  1 27263168 xfce4-sensors-plugin Sensor-Plugin Sensorwerte erkannter Sensoren überwachen. 
wolfgang  6763  0.4  0.6  25568 14036 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libeyes.so 30 27263169 eyes Augen Augen, die Ihnen zuschauen! 
wolfgang  6767  1.4  0.9  38304 18752 ?        Sl   16:26   0:01 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystemload.so 20 27263170 systemload Systemlast-Überwachung CPU-Auslastung, Swap- und Speichernutzung überwachen 
wolfgang  6770  0.3  0.8  28820 18092 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libnetload.so 16 27263171 netload Netzwerkmonitor Netzwerkverkehr anzeigen 
wolfgang  6775  0.1  1.4 834612 29144 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libmixer.so 19 27263172 mixer Lautstärkeregler Lautstärke einstellen 
wolfgang  6778  0.0  0.6  25468 12672 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 27263173 systray Benachrichtigungsfläche Fläche, in der Symbole für Benachrichtigungen erscheinen 
wolfgang  6785  0.1  1.2 158208 25168 ?        Sl   16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so 25 27263174 whiskermenu Whisker-Menü Zeigt ein Menü, um einfach auf installierte Anwendungen zuzugreifen 
wolfgang  7084  0.1  1.1 105980 23464 ?        Sl   16:27   0:00 xfce4-panel --preferences --socket-id=25166831 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 22180ee8e-09f5-453d-9d51-5363996a0dce
wolfgang  7194  0.1  1.1 105980 23464 ?        Sl   16:27   0:00 xfce4-panel --preferences --socket-id=25166831 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 22180ee8e-09f5-453d-9d51-5363996a0dce
wolfgang  7196  0.1  1.1 105980 23476 ?        Sl   16:27   0:00 xfce4-panel --preferences --socket-id=25166831 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 22180ee8e-09f5-453d-9d51-5363996a0dce
wolfgang  7364  0.0  0.0   5772  1864 pts/2    S+   16:29   0:00 grep --color=auto panel

So there are a lot of panels in edit mode, but i cant see them.
Only one, which is not in edit mode.
When I close the ERRORs all the xfce4-panel --preferences disapear.
And when I close "Not in kiosk mode" dialog the only shown panel goes to edit mode.

Hope this will help and won't confuse you.

ToZ · 2015-08-28 16:35:52

Something is firing up all of those panel preferences dialogs.

By autostart, I meant in your ~/.config/autostart (or Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart). What does the following return?

ls -l ~/.config/autostart

Can you also try manually clearing out your sessions cache:
1. Logout
2. Ctrl+Alt+F1
3. Log in to console session
4. Issue the following commands:

cd .cache
rm -rf sessions

5. Return to GUI (Ctrl+Alt+F7)
6. Log in and see.

rockford · 2015-08-29 07:53:04

Can you also try manually clearing out your sessions cache:
1. Logout
2. Ctrl+Alt+F1
3. Log in to console session
4. Issue the following commands:
cd .cache
rm -rf sessions
5. Return to GUI (Ctrl+Alt+F7)
6. Log in and see.

He ToZ, you're the hero of the day,

cleaning the cache manually did the trick.
Nice side effect is: logging in is a little bit faster and opening the whiskers menu is much more faster.

Thanks a lot.

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#1 2015-08-26 08:44:57

[Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

#2 2015-08-27 02:16:31

Re: [Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

#3 2015-08-28 14:17:03

Re: [Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

#4 2015-08-28 14:51:59

Re: [Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

#5 2015-08-28 16:35:52

Re: [Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

#6 2015-08-29 07:53:04

Re: [Solved] XFCE4 panel (4.12.0) is always in edit mode on login

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