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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: Central California

Registered: 2013-05-08

Posts: 6

xfce4-notes (xfce4-notes-plugin/xfce4-goodies) hangs when launched

Normally started during session startup
Running from a terminal

$ xfce4-notes
Gtk-Message: 09:59:08.639: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"
Gtk-Message: 09:59:08.639: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

Hangs and runs on one CPU @ about 100%, does not show up in system tray

[--ljohnson{11:06:01}~]$ top -p `pgrep xfce4-notes | tr "\\n" "," | sed 's/,$//'`

top - 11:06:18 up  2:28,  1 user,  load average: 4.56, 4.05, 3.55
Tasks:   1 total,   1 running,   0 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 19.7 us,  4.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 76.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.1 hi,  0.1 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :  15954.5 total,   2874.6 free,  10991.1 used,   2088.7 buff/cache
MiB Swap:  16400.0 total,  16342.7 free,     57.2 used.   3997.3 avail Mem 

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                          
   8443 ljohnson  20   0  173760  10532   8540 R  99.7   0.1  61:40.37 xfce4-notes 

     

[--ljohnson{10:33:25}~]$ pacman -Qss xfce4-goodies | grep notes
local/xfce4-notes-plugin 1.8.1-5 (xfce4-goodies)
    A notes plugin for the Xfce4 panel

[--ljohnson{10:37:21}~]$ ls /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/ | grep xapp-gtk3-module
libxapp-gtk3-module.so

[--ljohnson{10:47:09}~]$ cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep xapp | grep upgraded | grep '(2.0'
[2020-12-03T07:17:08-0800] [ALPM] upgraded xapp (2.0.0-1 -> 2.0.0-2)
[2020-12-08T08:22:10-0800] [ALPM] upgraded xapp (2.0.0-2 -> 2.0.2-1)
[2020-12-11T09:17:02-0800] [ALPM] upgraded xapp (2.0.2-1 -> 2.0.3-1)

What to do about remedying this?

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,017

Re: xfce4-notes (xfce4-notes-plugin/xfce4-goodies) hangs when launched

The failed module load error shouldn't affect it. Looks like at some point the name was changed to libxapp-gtk3-module and/or you may have an errant config file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d that still looks for xapp-gtk3-module.

Did you make any changes to any of the ~/.config/xfce4-notes.* files? Try renaming them and starting again. Or alternatively, try with a different Appearance theme to see if that is affecting it.

If that doesn't solve the problem, rename your ~/.local/share/notes directory (to notes.BAK) and try again. This is where the actual notes are stored.

If that doesn't work, create a second account on your computer and test with that account.

And failing that, you may need to run an strace on the command to see if you can identify the cause of the hang:

strace xfce4-notes ~/xfce4-notes.strace 2>&1

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