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mistfire wrote:@rg66 did you compile the modified whiskermenu source code that I sent to you?

Mike Walsh wrote:BTW:- Hadn't heard about the gvfs-metadata thing before. Might do some research on that one...

Mike Walsh wrote:Hi, all.

I've got a really basic question for y'all. How d'you restart the XFCE desktop?

I'm running X-Slacko 2.3.2 (which runs - most of the time! - like a dream.)

I don't exactly know what happens. Most of my desktop icons will edit fine; but just occasionally, I'll get the odd one which, when I click on OK after editing the thing, instead of re-appearing on the desktop, the whole thing throws a wobbly. The panel's fine (it's not affected by this) but the background wallpaper and all icons disappear; the desktop flashes alternately black, then grey, for maybe like half-a-dozen times or so.....then settles down to a blank, grey, totally unresponsive desktop.

But the curious thing is that the rest of the system continues to function perfectly.

Fortunately, I've got enough items on the panel's launcher bar, and in the Menu, to run everything as normal. But I'm guessing something in XFCE itself (or perhaps just the window manager ) jibs at having certain entries changed, and decided it's not gonna play ball any longer..!

Any ideas, anybody? (*Pretty please.....with sprinkles on? )


Mike.

rg66 wrote:@Marv

Tried X-slacko on my dual core pae lappy and it seems the same as with windows, fan stays on low speed.

Tried X-slacko-non-pae on my pentium M-1.5, fan starts on high then throttles to low and eventually shuts off at idle.

Mike Walsh wrote:Hiya, Geoff.

Thanks for that suggestion. I'll give that a try, too!

Just like me to be using the older version of XFCE with all the buggy behaviour, ain't it? (*sheesh*)

However, aside from this one annoying little thing, I really like 2.3.2. Runs a treat on ye ancient Dell, it surey does.

Let me pick your brains for a second, if I may? (I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this one.....but I'll ask, anyway.)

Is there any possibility a save-folder from 2.3.2 would run with 3.0?

No biggie if it won't; just curious, that's all.


Mike.

Mike Walsh wrote:Something along these lines, perhaps (with suitable modifications, of course)?

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$ pkill gvfs-metadata
$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
$ pkill gvfs-metadata

#!/bin/sh

pkill gvfsd-metadata

sleep 5 && rm -rf /root/.local/share/gvfs-metadata

Moat wrote:Howdy, Mike -

Mike Walsh wrote:Something along these lines, perhaps (with suitable modifications, of course)?

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$ pkill gvfs-metadata
$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
$ pkill gvfs-metadata

Pretty dern close - I'm running with this below, and with one eye on the task manager and the other on the /root/.local/share/gvfs-metadata directory, it appears to do the trick;

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#!/bin/sh

pkill gvfsd-metadata

sleep 5 && rm -rf /root/.local/share/gvfs-metadata

Notice the 'd' in 'gvfsd-metadata' - at least that's the runaway process here on X-Tahr 2.0, AFAICT (hasn't acted up lately).

All's left to then do is drop the shellscript in /usr/bin, make a .desktop file for it in /usr/share/applications, and find a nice, fitting icon to point the .desktop file to. That'll give me quick access to it via menu or panel launcher/button.

Bob

Mike Walsh wrote:Morning, all.

Got another interesting one here...!

@Geoff:- D'you remember a while back, when I first installed X-Slacko? I wanted the weather plugin for the panel; tried the one from the repo (which kept trying to restart itself).....and you advised me to use the Carolina one.....which worked perfectly.

I've just installed X-Precise 2.4. Everything was going swimmingly. I'd been tweaking quite happily for about 2 1/2 hours or so, when for no apparent reason, every single item on the panel (with the exception of the Whisker Menu) pulled exactly the same stunt. Crashed, tried to restart, and I got the same window umpteen times for each item.

'X has unexpectedly left the panel. Do you want to restart it (blah, blah, blah...)'

Is there a Carolina 'fix' for the entire panel? Or is this indicative of a more serious underlying problem? Because I installed X-Precise to a thumb-drive a few months back (this time, it's on the external Seagate); first time round, I never had this problem..!

Okay, I admit I just did a 'quick'n'dirty' install this time, instead of faffing around with the PUI; copied the ISO contents across, and ran Grub4DOS. Always works.

Everything else is working perfectly.....it's just the damn panel! You can work without it; but it's a bit awkward..... Oh, and adding a new panel doesn't make a scrap of difference; the instant you try to add anything to it, it's crashing straight away.

Any thoughts?


Mike.

Marv wrote:Using a daemon to control a daemon. So far it has been working.

Moat wrote:Hey Marv, running it as a cron job - now there's an idea.

Marv wrote:Using a daemon to control a daemon. So far it has been working.

My only fear would be it inadvertently triggering right in the middle of it's (seemingly rare?!) doing something useful/intended. Let us know if any issues crop up as time goes by, using that method.

It's an intrusive, obnoxious bugger, even on my very recent Mint 18.1 Mate laptop install - where it fires off every single time I open Synaptic, peaking one CPU core for about a minute, then settling back down/disappearing. Only fires about once or twice a week on my older Mint Mate 17.1 install. Gettin' even buggerer, it seems!

Bob