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ElVinzou

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Registered: 2021-04-23

Posts: 2

xfce4-panel not working after install

Hi everyone,

I've tried to compile everything on my own just for fun and I'm having a weird problem with xfce4-panel. I've tried to recompile more or less everything, thought this might be the problem but I'm starting to have some doubt.

Once XFCE is started, here is the output of : PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel

xfce4-panel(main): version 4.12.0 on gtk+ 2.24.33 (2.24.33), glib 2.68.1 (2.68.1)
xfce4-panel: Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
xfce4-panel(module-factory): reading /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins
xfce4-panel(module-factory): reading /usr/share/xfce4/panel-plugins
xfce4-panel(application): found window manager after 1 tries
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55e05f8840e0: rgba colormap=0x55e05f88aad0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55e05f8840e0: rgba colormap=0x55e05f88aad0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(display-layout): 0x55e05f8840e0: display=:0.0{comp=true}, screen-0[0x55e05f853ae0]=[1440,900] (monitor-0=[0,0;1440,900])
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55e05f8840e0: screen=0x55e05f853ae0, monitors=1, output-name=(null), span-monitors=false, base=0,0
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55e05f8840e0: working-area: screen=0x55e05f853ae0, x=0, y=0, w=1440, h=900
xfce4-panel(struts): 0x55e05f8840e0: top=31, start_x=0, end_x=1439
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=applicationsmenu, id=1)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=tasklist, id=3)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=separator, id=15)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=pager, id=4)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=clock, id=5)
xfce4-panel(external): register dbus path /org/xfce/Panel/Wrapper/6
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=external-wrapper, name=systray, id=6)
xfce4-panel(external): systray-6: child spawned; pid=25848, argc=8
xfce4-panel(external): register dbus path /org/xfce/Panel/Wrapper/2
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=external-wrapper, name=actions, id=2)
xfce4-panel(external): actions-2: child spawned; pid=25850, argc=8
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55e05f884370: rgba colormap=0x55e05f88aad0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55e05f884370: rgba colormap=0x55e05f88aad0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(display-layout): 0x55e05f884370: display=:0.0{comp=true}, screen-0[0x55e05f853ae0]=[1440,900] (monitor-0=[0,0;1440,900])
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55e05f884370: screen=0x55e05f853ae0, monitors=1, output-name=(null), span-monitors=false, base=0,0
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55e05f884370: working-area: screen=0x55e05f853ae0, x=0, y=0, w=1440, h=900
xfce4-panel(struts): 0x55e05f884370: bottom=49, start_x=648, end_x=791
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=showdesktop, id=7)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=separator, id=8)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=9)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=10)
xfce4-panel(systray): registered manager on screen 0
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=11)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=12)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=separator, id=13)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=directorymenu, id=14)
xfce4-panel(external): systray-6: child is embedded; 5 properties in queue
xfce4-panel(external): actions-2: child is embedded; 5 properties in queue
The program 'wrapper-1.0' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 196 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
The program 'xfce4-panel' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 402 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
xfce4-panel(systray): unregistered manager

Fun fact, it's working if I'm starting it with a sudo : sudo PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel

xfce4-panel(main): version 4.12.0 on gtk+ 2.24.33 (2.24.33), glib 2.68.1 (2.68.1)
xfce4-panel: Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
xfce4-panel(module-factory): reading /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins
xfce4-panel(module-factory): reading /usr/share/xfce4/panel-plugins
xfce4-panel(application): found window manager after 1 tries
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55f665af60e0: rgba colormap=0x55f665afd2d0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55f665af60e0: rgba colormap=0x55f665afd2d0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(display-layout): 0x55f665af60e0: display=:0.0{comp=true}, screen-0[0x55f665ac4800]=[1440,900] (monitor-0=[0,0;1440,900])
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55f665af60e0: screen=0x55f665ac4800, monitors=1, output-name=(null), span-monitors=false, base=0,0
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55f665af60e0: working-area: screen=0x55f665ac4800, x=0, y=0, w=1440, h=900
xfce4-panel(struts): 0x55f665af60e0: top=31, start_x=0, end_x=1439
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=applicationsmenu, id=1)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=tasklist, id=3)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=separator, id=15)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=pager, id=4)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=clock, id=5)
xfce4-panel(external): register dbus path /org/xfce/Panel/Wrapper/6
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=external-wrapper, name=systray, id=6)
xfce4-panel(external): systray-6: child spawned; pid=25877, argc=8
xfce4-panel(external): register dbus path /org/xfce/Panel/Wrapper/2
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=external-wrapper, name=actions, id=2)
xfce4-panel(external): actions-2: child spawned; pid=25879, argc=8
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55f665af6370: rgba colormap=0x55f665afd2d0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(base-window): 0x55f665af6370: rgba colormap=0x55f665afd2d0, compositing=true
xfce4-panel(display-layout): 0x55f665af6370: display=:0.0{comp=true}, screen-0[0x55f665ac4800]=[1440,900] (monitor-0=[0,0;1440,900])
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55f665af6370: screen=0x55f665ac4800, monitors=1, output-name=(null), span-monitors=false, base=0,0
xfce4-panel(positioning): 0x55f665af6370: working-area: screen=0x55f665ac4800, x=0, y=0, w=1440, h=900
xfce4-panel(struts): 0x55f665af6370: bottom=49, start_x=648, end_x=791
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=showdesktop, id=7)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=separator, id=8)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=9)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=10)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=11)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=launcher, id=12)
xfce4-panel(systray): registered manager on screen 0
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=separator, id=13)
xfce4-panel(module): new item (type=object-type, name=directorymenu, id=14)
xfce4-panel(external): systray-6: child is embedded; 5 properties in queue
xfce4-panel(external): actions-2: child is embedded; 5 properties in queue
xfce4-panel(struts): 0x55f665af6370: bottom=49, start_x=567, end_x=872

Even funnier fact, when I start XFCE as a root directly, I got the same BadMatch error and the xfce4-panel unable to start (I'm starting to get bald scratching my head on that).

Everything else seems to be quite unstable, I got the same message once in a while with things like settings-manager and so on, but sometimes it works.

I don't think it's a bug as the message is claiming since I'm running the same version on many other Linux, the most likely is I'm the problem, somewhere in the building/configuring I have probably failed.

I'm running out of ideas to find what's wrong and what the problem could possibly be, so any "what's the output of this" and "have a look there" is very welcome !

Edit : I forgot to mention, I've tried the font install to fix the problem, it's not working any better.

Thanks.

Last edited by ElVinzou (2021-04-23 09:23:56)

ElVinzou

Member

Registered: 2021-04-23

Posts: 2

Re: xfce4-panel not working after install

Problem solved after rebuilding libxfce4ui and libxfce4util !