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BenyaminL

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XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

Hello,

It's quite a silly problem that I face. I am on XFCE 38 Fedora Spin, and I want to map Super+Q to open xfce4-popup-places. The problem is, it doesn't work, and doesn't show the places on the targeted location of panel, or even with -p flags under the mouse, and will only work, if I type the command manually in terminal/xfce4 terminal.

My XFCE Version is 4.18, Thunar 4.18.6, Places applet 4.18.4

Is there anyone could confirm this, that it work on their distro, and not working on mine (Fedora)? Or it's also a problem across distro? Thank you

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

Works fine here (just a harmless warning about "no trigger event for menu popup"). The last version of the plugin is 1.8.3 though, 4.18.4 does not exist, but maybe you're talking about the panel version?

BenyaminL

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

Works fine here (just a harmless warning about "no trigger event for menu popup"). The last version of the plugin is 1.8.3 though, 4.18.4 does not exist, but maybe you're talking about the panel version?

I tried to check using this command

[ben@TP-X220 ~]$ xfce4-popup-places -V
xfce4-popup-places (xfce4-panel) 4.18.4 (Xfce 4.18)

What about mapping to keyboard and add it to panel? The same thing? No error?

Mine is selected, but the menu doesn't show, sadly

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

> I tried to check using this command

Yes it's misleading, the version displayed here is the panel version, not the plugin version. I'm not sure that displaying things this way is a good idea... Anyway, the only way to know the version of the plugin you're using is to refer to your package manager I think, as there's no about dialog for this plugin.

> What about mapping to keyboard and add it to panel? The same thing? No error?

Not sure what you mean, but here's what I did:
* add the plugin to the panel,
* configure the keyboard shortcut in xfce4-keyboard-settings,
and this shortcut works (with or without -p).

If you run

xfce4-panel -q
xfce4-panel

and try to activate the keyboard shortcut, do you see anything in the terminal?

BenyaminL

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

> I tried to check using this command

Yes it's misleading, the version displayed here is the panel version, not the plugin version. I'm not sure that displaying things this way is a good idea... Anyway, the only way to know the version of the plugin you're using is to refer to your package manager I think, as there's no about dialog for this plugin.

> What about mapping to keyboard and add it to panel? The same thing? No error?

Not sure what you mean, but here's what I did:
* add the plugin to the panel,
* configure the keyboard shortcut in xfce4-keyboard-settings,
and this shortcut works (with or without -p).

If you run

xfce4-panel -q
xfce4-panel

and try to activate the keyboard shortcut, do you see anything in the terminal?

$ xfce4-panel 

(wrapper-2.0:54614): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:34:01.970: no trigger event for menu popup

Yes I got that. But only a warning tho?
Or I need wrap it in shell script in order to work?

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

No, it's already a shell script, so I don't see what difference that would make. I don't know what the problem is, sorry

BenyaminL

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

No, it's already a shell script, so I don't see what difference that would make. I don't know what the problem is, sorry

Is that the only way to debug the error? or there are other way?

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

I think it's the same issue as https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/201 , fixed in https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-pane … 2acf57f444 .
The fix should probably also be implemented for this plugin (and perhaps others that use popup-commands…).
You can open a new issue at https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … n/-/issues I think (please link this thread).

BenyaminL

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

I think it's the same issue as https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/201 , fixed in https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-pane … 2acf57f444 .
The fix should probably also be implemented for this plugin (and perhaps others that use popup-commands…).
You can open a new issue at https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … n/-/issues I think (please link this thread).

How to make sure before I open an issue, that it's really a bug? It's on same project right? Or the plugin is on seperate project?

Thank you

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Place pop up not working in Fedora 38 XFCE Spin

> How to make sure before I open an issue, that it's really a bug?

We can never be totally sure, but I think it's this bug.

> It's on same project right? Or the plugin is on seperate project?

I've given you the link above: https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … n/-/issues