[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#294308: xfce4-battery-plugin: does not display -- error on startup

Paul Galbraith Paul Galbraith <paul@paulgalbraith.net>, 294308@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:49:17 -0500


Simon Huggins wrote:

>Salut Paul!
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>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:10:20PM -0500, Paul Galbraith wrote:
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>>After adding the battery plugin to the panel, a space for it is
>>displayed but nothing shows in the space.
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>You should see a rectangle which is thinner than it is tall.  Can you
>right click on the space and see the context menu for the plugin?
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>Do you have ACPI/APM working in your kernel?
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Thanks Simon, I didn't even realize I needed to do something here.  I 
loaded the apm module and all is well.

Maybe a quick line in the docs folder to check apm/acpi in the kernel 
would be a good idea ;-)

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>>Looking in .xsession-errors, the following error is logged when the
>>battery monitor tries to startup:
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>>(xfce4-session:2911): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1911
>>(gtk_widget_destroy): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
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>Hmm, I'm not sure this is relevant.  Does it only happen when you add
>it?
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>Simon
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