Re: Wallpaper Has Stopped Working

In article <[email protected]>, Tony Houghton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:29:27 +0000 Mark Williams
> <[email protected]> wrote:

<snip what Mark wrote>

> What version of rox are you using? A deb package by the look of that
> path, but the one in Ubuntu is really old and nobody's responded to
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rox/+bug/432614>. Feel like
> compiling it from source? If not you could use 0install instead.


> I've been getting that a lot too, when I add an applet to the panel.
> It's quite likely a GTK error rather than Rox's fault (especially as
> it's occurring in two different versions if I've guessed right about the
> one you're using), but it's probably very rare for it to be triggered
> except by Rox (which is quite rare compared to GTK I suppose).

I'm also using the version of ROX supplied by synaptic for Ubuntu/Xubuntu.
The above prompts me to add the following in case it is related.

The quirks I described a while ago with the pinboard/wallpaper continue.
I've settled on booting up the laptop into Xubuntu with "rox -S" assigned
to F12. (Note that this does *not* include the -p= option.) I have
installed the 'wallpaper' app.

If I press F12 within a second or two of the xfce desktop appearing, then I
get rox *with* a backdrop and pinboard. (Regardless of the command issued
by F12 not including the pinboard option.)

But if I wait a few seconds, I only get the 'iconbar' panel and no backdrop
and pinboard when I press F12.

Adding the option to ask for the backdrop and pinboard to the rox command
issued by the Fkey generally doesn't give a backdrop and pinboard (as
reported some time ago). So I'm in the odd position of *not* asking for a
pinboard giving me one reliably, whilst asking for one fails to do so!  :-)

Hence I've settled on having to quickly press F12 to get the pinboard and
backdrop to appear. Although why this works reliably, when no other method
I've tried does, I have no idea. But since it works, I've just put this
behaviour into the class of 'one of the infinite number of things I don't
understand (yet)'.  :-)

Given the above comments about the version I am using being old, etc, I'd
like to ask: How easy might it be to try a newer version, but then be able
to revert to what I have if that threw up other problems? And if I tried
this, which version is most likely to be 'best' for my Xubuntu 9.04 laptop?
The version of rox I'm using seems fine to me at present. The only puzzle
is the odd pinboard/backdrop behaviour - which may well be due to a buglet
in xfce, etc, anyway!

Slainte,

Jim

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