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[Bug 1307657] Re: UBUNTU_MENUPROXY should not be set in Xfce

 

Another side effect of this is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-volumed/+bug/1314782

Basically, the ubuntu extra gtk modules open dbus connections which
become invalid if the application forks after calling gtk_init() - which
is not supported, but something that you can usually get away with.

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Title:
  UBUNTU_MENUPROXY should not be set in Xfce

Status in “unity-gtk-module” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “xfce4-indicator-plugin” 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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