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[Alistair Buxton <a.j.buxton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

To reproduce: either start with a fresh Ubuntu install and then install
xubuntu-desktop, or start with Xubuntu and then install ubuntu-desktop -
ie have both Xfce and Unity installed on the same machine.

Xfce now has support for gtk3 indicators launched by upstart, but
indicator-appmenu is totally broken - it will constantly crash the panel
and applications. Xfce has a mechanism to hide indicators, and then the
frontend UI will not be loaded in the panel, but it seems that
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY is still being set in Xfce, which causes menus to
disappear from applications, even though nothing is available to receive
them.

I discussed this with tedg and he suggested that the problem may be to
do with the upstart service which sets UBUNTU_MENUPROXY, ie
/usr/share/upstart/sessions/unity-gtk-module.conf

We may in future get the appmenus working in Xfce, and then we would
need some way to turn the menuproxy on and off depending on the user
configuration. But for now, since they are broken anyway, it would be
easiest to simply blacklist xubuntu desktop completely.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-gtk-module-common 0.0.0+14.04.20140403-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Apr 14 19:40:36 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-11 (61 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140210)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: unity-gtk-module
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: unity-gtk-module (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307657

Title:
  UBUNTU_MENUPROXY should not be set in Xfce

Status in “unity-gtk-module” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  To reproduce: either start with a fresh Ubuntu install and then
  install xubuntu-desktop, or start with Xubuntu and then install
  ubuntu-desktop - ie have both Xfce and Unity installed on the same
  machine.

  Xfce now has support for gtk3 indicators launched by upstart, but
  indicator-appmenu is totally broken - it will constantly crash the
  panel and applications. Xfce has a mechanism to hide indicators, and
  then the frontend UI will not be loaded in the panel, but it seems
  that UBUNTU_MENUPROXY is still being set in Xfce, which causes menus
  to disappear from applications, even though nothing is available to
  receive them.

  I discussed this with tedg and he suggested that the problem may be to
  do with the upstart service which sets UBUNTU_MENUPROXY, ie
  /usr/share/upstart/sessions/unity-gtk-module.conf

  We may in future get the appmenus working in Xfce, and then we would
  need some way to turn the menuproxy on and off depending on the user
  configuration. But for now, since they are broken anyway, it would be
  easiest to simply blacklist xubuntu desktop completely.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity-gtk-module-common 0.0.0+14.04.20140403-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Mon Apr 14 19:40:36 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-11 (61 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140210)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: unity-gtk-module
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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