Re: Wallpaper Has Stopped Working

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:48:06 +0000 (GMT)
Jim Lesurf <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 

I had to reinstall the version of rf in the Ubuntu repos as, for some
reason, a lot of ROX stuff doesn't work without it.

But mainly I'm using v2.10 from 0install


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