[SOLVED]Problems XFCE4: AWM weather notifications, and no logout menu.
Hi.
Im having some little problems with xfce, the problems doesn's affect the functionality at all but are starting to be really anoying, since i cannot solve them. Since they are small things, i didn't want to open separate topics for them. If this is bad, please tell me.
Ok the most anoying problem is that i keep getting a notification in the desktop saying that my weather plugin cannot find the data. This notification occurs every hour or so. I tended to ignore it, but it keeps appearing. Im not using the weather app and i have uninstalled completely from my system. Also i have uninstalled and reinstalled both libnotify and xfce4-notifyd. I have cleared the XFCE sessions cache inmy home folder. I have no idea what else to do. Also i have done " pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies" to reinstall the whole desktop just in the hope that the notification will dissapear. I have no idea what file to remove. ¿Can anyone point me in the right direction?
The second issue comes regarding the xfce options to logout. In the xfce panel there is an option that says logout. This option is supossed to display a menu that gives you options to shutdown, reboot or suspend the computer. I dont get this menu at all, and the logout button just lets me in lxdm sesssion manager. Thus im not able to poweroff the computer directly, and I always use a terminal with the "sudo poweroff" command to poweroff
However i really want the suspend option from this menu. ¿Am i missing some package ?
I have Arch linux installed in another computer, an old netbook, also with xfce4 .Iḿ sure that the logout menu appears in this arch installation.
I just can't think what's wrong. Any help??
Last edited by hydrosIII (2013-11-29 17:20:47)
hydrosIII wrote:
eyemonen: Thank you, in fact when i said logout menu i was refering to the applications menu. Just in the bottom there is a logout entry. this entry normally (i think) displays an action menu when you click on it.
But i just discovered the plugin that you said and it works fine, to logout and change user, etc. I will investigate about the applications menu. to see if it works
Another question, where is the "save session for the future logins" option???
Ah, I have forgot that there is a log out entry in the application menu since I don't use menu myself. To display the logout dialog command xfce4-session-logout is executed without any options. Check if you the logout dialog is displayed when executing this command in terminal. Then take a look at your xfce4-session-logout.desktop file to see if it contains "Exec=xfce4-session-logout" and not something like "Exec=xfce4-session-logout --logout"? Also make sure that your application menu file refers to that desktop file.
The logout dialog contains that "save session for future logins" option.
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