[solved] Building xfce4-panel-git

Hello.
I've satisfied all depps for xfce4-panel-git. However, I have a problem:
Build Configuration:
* Debug Support: yes
* GNU Visibility: yes
* Documentation: no
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering folder `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kant/aur-xfce4-panel-git/xfce4-panel-git/src/xfce4-panel-build'
Making all in libxfce4panel
make[2]: Entering folder `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kant/aur-xfce4-panel-git/xfce4-panel-git/src/xfce4-panel-build/libxfce4panel'
make all-am
make[3]: Entering folder `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kant/aur-xfce4-panel-git/xfce4-panel-git/src/xfce4-panel-build/libxfce4panel'
make[3]: *** No rules for making object `libxfce4panel-aliasdef.c', required by `libxfce4panel_1_0_la-libxfce4panel-aliasdef.lo'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving folder `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kant/aur-xfce4-panel-git/xfce4-panel-git/src/xfce4-panel-build/libxfce4panel'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving folder `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kant/aur-xfce4-panel-git/xfce4-panel-git/src/xfce4-panel-build/libxfce4panel'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving folder `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kant/aur-xfce4-panel-git/xfce4-panel-git/src/xfce4-panel-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2
NOTE:English messages were translated from polish language.
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: It's easier to install from repo:
[xfce4-git]
Server = http://mail.kazgrid.kz/repo/i686/xfce4-git-latest
^^
Last edited by weakhead (2010-05-25 20:47:31)

s3vv4 wrote:
When I open asian sites (like http://www.youku.com/ ), for some reason my xfce4-panel crashes. Probably any site that has asian symbols would crash the panel.
I started xfce4-panel in a terminal, and it prints the following when it crashes:
xfce4-panel: cairo-scaled-font.c:459: _cairo_scaled_glyph_page_destroy: Assertion `!scaled_font->cache_frozen' failed.
fish: Job 1, “xfce4-panel &” terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)
Is this some problem with my fonts? Because I get alot of squares instead of asian symbols.
This was happening to me too, but I think it was because of Russian characters.. I've now installed all of the ttf fonts and I hope xfce4-panel stops crashing

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s3vv4 wrote:
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flamelab wrote:
Can you please post an output of this error with english messages ? I don't understand Polish
It says "No such file or directory" I suppose ?
Yes that's right I'm not good at tranlate but I will try
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region.c:697: error: 'ShapeInput' undeclared (first use in this function)
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from xfixes.c:54:
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Hi all
After reading in the forum about pekwm I decided to give it a shoot.
I just love the "tabed" window funktion
Now to the problem
The trouble i have is that when I'm using mplayer or gmplayer in fullscreen mode the panel and iconbox is in the foreground.
Conky and all other windows stays in the background
Is there a way to alter this behaivior.
My .xinitrc
xfce4-iconbox &
xfdesktop &
xfce4-panel &
conky &
exec pekwm
Many thanks
Clanman

Dusty wrote:
I don't know the specifics, but I suspect you can use autoproperties for each window that sets them to a lower layer somehow
Dusty
Hi Dusty
After your tip I dug into Pekwm and found the autoproperties
~/.pekwm/autoproperties
I added this
Property = "^xfce4-panel,^Xfce4-panel" {
ApplyOn = "Start"
Layer = "Harbour"
Property = "^MPlayer,^MPlayer" {
ApplyOn = "Start New"
Layer = "Menu"
Now my mplayer gets the top window placement.
Tanks for the tip
//Clanman

[SOLVED] Xfce4, panel that at desktop level.

I would like to have a panel that is not always on top.
Reading around I find this solution:
First set an hidden setting on the panel:
$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/disable-struts -t bool -s true
Find the panel ID.
$ wmctrl -l | grep xfce4-panel
0x00c00004 -1 mysticalwhatisit xfce4-panel
0x00c00020 -1 mysticalwhatisit xfce4-panel
Put the panel below (by chance as from what I understood you cannot be sure of what is the correct one...).
$ wmctrl -i -r 0x00c00020 -b add,below
It works, but the effect is lost after a xfce restart.
I found a solution about an hackish bash script executed every login, but it seems so crazy... there is really no better way to get a panel that is not always on top?
Last edited by ezzetabi (2012-03-31 07:18:24)

Well, from the lack of answers I guess there is really no other solution. So here is a small bash script that might help everyone with the same problem:
#!/bin/sh
function getPanelIdImpl() {
PANEL="`wmctrl -l | sed -n -e '/xfce4-panel$/ s_ .*$__ p' | sed -n -e $1' p'`"
function getPanelId() {
getPanelIdImpl $1
while [[ x == x$PANEL ]] ;do
sleep 0.5s
getPanelIdImpl $1
done
function putPanelDown() {
PANEL=""
getPanelId $1
wmctrl -i -r $PANEL -b add,below
#putPanelDown 1
#putPanelDown 2
Just call putPanelDown with the panels you want not always-on-top.
Last edited by ezzetabi (2012-03-30 13:27:38)

[SOLVED] Xfce4 panel, no notification area

I've just installed Fluxbox onto my Arch install and I desired a proper panel, because of the relatively few dependencies and lack of messing around I chose the xfce4-panel. However I can't seem to have a systray/notification area. If I attempt to add one to the panel I get the error
"There is already a notification area running on this screen."
Which there isn't, not to my knowledge anyway. After that box closes I get the message;
"Could not open "systray" module"
I've been looking around for a while to see if I can install said module, but to no avail.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by Bonner (2009-06-29 14:04:38)

DevoidOfWindows wrote:http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 62#p345462
Aha! I never knew that. Sorted it fine, thanks a lot!

SOLVED xfce4 panel gone

my xfce4 panel no longer loads when I run startfce4 from the command line. I reinstalled the xfce4-panel package and the xfce4 group. restarted X and still nothing. when I go into settings->Panel manager from the menu nothing happens. can anyone point me in the right direction so I can get my panel back?
Last edited by farkus888 (2008-10-03 08:25:39)

I looked around and foung ./config/xfce4 in my home directory. to be safe I deleted that entire directory and all of its contents. got out of my desktop. cleared pacmans cache so that I would be pulling the packages from the web new in case it was a bad download issue. then did an in place reinstall of the entire xfce4 group, which does include xfce4-panel. when I logged back in my entire desktop was back to the defaults except I still have no panel and cannot load the panel manager to try to turn it back on.

Compiz as stand-alone + xfce4-panel : a few questions

After some months with gnome 3 I decided to go back to compiz, as I used to use that with gnome 2.xx and appreciated it quite a bit. I ran into a few problems when trying to set it up properly.
First, is there some way to enable session management with compiz? I would like to be able to have a button or menu that offers to sleep, reboot or shutdown the computer. Not that I mind using 'pm-suspend' and other commands like that, but my girlfriend also uses the computer sometimes so it needs to be more user-friendly than that. I noticed there is an actions button by default in the xfce panel but it doesn't work in compiz and just says 'session management is disabled, do you want to exit X' or something like that.
Second, I need some sort of run prompt when I hit alt-f2. The 'gnome compatibility' option in ccsm doesn't seem to work in standalone mode.
Third, I want the computer to automatically sleep when I flip the lid. In gnome 3, it does that without any special configuration, but this doesn't work with compiz as a stand-alone. I suspect I need to configure it to pick up the 'lid is flipped' event somehow?
Fourth, I need a volume control option that will display a volume icon in my xfce4 panel notification area and most importantly I need that volume control icon to respond accurately to the input from my 'mute' and volume 'up' and 'down' buttons. It's a thinkpad x220 laptop. I bring it to school often, so being able to know whether my volume is on or off is important when in class. This works fine in gnome3 but I have tried other DE's such as LXDE and found that the volume icon stayed the same as I used the volume buttons on the keyboard (the buttons did work, so it could be muted but still displaying that it's at full volume). To check if it was muted or not, I had to open a terminal and use alsamixer.
Of course, I don't NEED to be using xfce4-panel. What I need is a menu, and automatic menu generation is nice because it's easier to configure. So I picked that one because I've used it in the past. If there is a better alternative, please recommend it. Or perhaps it would be best if I simply ran gnome fallback and compiz as the WM?

I'm using compiz standalone, so here's how i solved that stuff.
You can use obshutdown for session management, it's in AUR, look in its config file, slap a launcher in the corner of you panel, set the icon for prettyness and it works pretty well.
I use gmrun as a launcher, set alt+f2 to call it. It's pretty simple which is what i like. You can also use synapse, or gnome-do, they have more functionality like searching your bookmarks, your files, your loved one's medical history, you name it.
For volume control, you can use pnmixer from aur, it sits in your system tray, and you can set it's hotkeys, but you can also use CCSM to set your hotkeys for volume management.
I think laptop-tools(check the wiki) can be used to put your computer to sleep, and general powersaving. You should check the article named laptop in the wiki for other laptop-related stuff too. I think i used xfce4-power-manager for power management as well a while ago.
I used xfce4-panel for a while but i didn't really like it as much as i liked the old gnome-panel, so i installed mate-panel(which is the old gnome-panel). You can find it in AUR, or you can check it's wiki article for repos you can add for mate(if you want to install it from aur, it will pull some aur dependancies, and i didn't feel like compiling everything).

Xfce4-panel with window decoration

Hi,
I have updated my system- pacman -Syu recently. Unfortunately xfce4-panel is running in window now:
Console shows
[archon@archon-netbook ~]$ xfce4-panel
(xfce4-panel:2220): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_valist: construct property "type" for object `XfcePanelWindow' can't be set after construction
(xfce4-panel:2220): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'
I read somewhere it's caused by glib. So i've built glib2-git and glib2-newest from aur. It didn't change anything.
Anyone have suggestions how to fix it? Thanks in advance

why?
Last edited by archon (2010-09-30 12:02:41)

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