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[Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx>]

I assume that ubuntu_menuproxy is for the AppMenu (also known as
GlobalMenu?). If that is the case then *I* don't see any problems with it
disabled, as I don't think Lubuntu will get a globalmenu? But this is more
for the devs to decide.

With metta, Chris

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 05:16, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure how it happens. While debugging some weird memory leaks of
> libfm, I found that it's caused by ubuntu menu proxy.
> Ubuntu app menu stuff injects a module into gtk so every gtk app will
> loads it. Then, it tries to export application menus via dbus.
> The implementation, however, has some unknown problems causing unnecessary
> references of objects inside our programs and this causes unresolved memory
> leaks.
> Doing export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="" to turn off ubuntu menu proxy fixes all
> the problems.
> I'd suggest adding export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="" in startlubuntu script since
> we don't need that and don't want the bugs brought by it.
> Further investigation is needed to see why it cause problems, but I don't
> have the time to do it.
> A test case is the demo program libfm-demo provided by libfm package. When
> menu proxy is active, libfm-demo never terminates and hangs on exit.
> Please turn menu proxy off for Lubuntu. Thanks.
>
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