XFCE4 panel Action buttons don't work

Question

Hello,
I'm having multiple problems with Action buttons from XFCE4 panel. I use slim (1.3.3-5) and Xfce (4.10).
1. Suspend and switch user option is greyed out.
2. The 'main button' (which displays user name) appears about 2 minutes after log in. When I try to click on it, it's unresponsive for about another 2 minutes.
3. When I finally get to click on 'Shut Down' it only logs me out to slim.
When I restart dbus (/etc/rc.d/dbus restart) while logged in to XFCE the button appears instantly, and is responsive. Shut down doesn't work though.
[skyer@sig ~]$ cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
Both dbus daemon and dbus-launch are present all the time.
[skyer@sig ~]$ ps aux|grep dbus
skyer 854 0.0 0.0 17952 536 tty1 S+ 17:05 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
skyer 855 0.0 0.0 17644 1336 ? Ss 17:05 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
dbus 969 0.0 0.0 17260 1116 ? Ss 17:05 0:00 dbus-daemon --system
skyer 1061 0.0 0.0 8656 1020 pts/2 S+ 17:12 0:00 grep dbus
One session is started, user 1000 is me.
[skyer@sig ~]$ ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = 'x11'
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0.0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2012-06-28T15:17:28.439726Z'
login-session-id = '1'
I did not change slim.conf - its just as it was when freshly installed.
Thanks for help.
Last edited by skyer (2012-06-28 15:19:37)

Answer 1

It could be an issue with your session environment not being set correctly. I use the following script to start my session (using lightdm, not slim, but this should be ok for your xinitrc)
#!/bin/sh
# Load profile
for file in "/etc/profile" "$HOME/.profile" "/etc/xprofile" "$HOME/.xprofile"; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
echo "Loading profile from $file";
. "$file"
fi
done
# Load resources
for file in "/etc/X11/Xresources" "$HOME/.Xresources"; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
echo "Loading resource: $file"
xrdb -nocpp -merge "$file"
fi,,,,,,,
done
# Load keymaps
for file in "/etc/X11/Xkbmap" "$HOME/.Xkbmap"; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
echo "Loading keymap: $file"
setxkbmap `cat "$file"`
XKB_IN_USE=yes
fi
done
# Load xmodmap if not using XKB
if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" ]; then
for file in "/etc/X11/Xmodmap" "$HOME/.Xmodmap"; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
echo "Loading modmap: $file"
xmodmap "$file"
fi
done
fi
unset XKB_IN_USE
# Run all system xinitrc shell scripts.
xinitdir="/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d"
if [ -d "$xinitdir" ]; then
for script in $xinitdir/*; do
echo "Loading xinit script $script"
if [ -x "$script" -a ! -d "$script" ]; then
. "$script"
fi
done
fi
# Load Xsession scripts
xsessionddir="/etc/X11/Xsession.d"
if [ -d "$xsessionddir" ]; then
for i in `ls $xsessionddir`; do
script="$xsessionddir/$i"
echo "Loading X session script $script"
if [ -r "$script" -a -f "$script" ] && expr "$i" : '^[[:alnum:]_-]\+$' > /dev/null; then
. "$script"
fi
done
fi
echo "X session wrapper complete, running session $@"
exec $@
Also, you may need to wrap consolekit around your session as per the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce
Cheers.