Arch Linux

Please read this before reporting a bug:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines

Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List.

REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!
Tasklist

FS#10556 - NetworkManager (nm-applet) executes 4 times in xfce

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christopher Stanton (Stanto) - Sunday, 01 June 2008, 11:02 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 01 June 2008, 13:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Archlinux latest distro' installed on a B2131 laptop with xfce4.

NetworkManager is running as a daemon and xfce4 is set to run as the default startx action with the provided .xinitrc as per the wiki.

xfce4 is set to run gnome services on startup; nm-applet is not manually called. Once the X environment has loaded up there are four instances of nm-applet running, this does not affect functionality but is aesthetically irritating and wastes resources.

Each execution of X re-starts the four nm-applet processes and any that are unneeded have to be manually killed.

Additional info:
Packages installed dated: 2008-05-22
* networkmanager: 0.6.6-1
* gnome-network-manager: 0.6.5-1
* xfce4-session: 4.4.2-1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Setup ArchLinux
2. Install X and xfce desktop environment
3. Install network manager and gnome dependencies
4. Set xfce to start gnome services automatically and add networkmanager to daemons in rc.conf
5. Start xfce X instance as a user
This task depends upon

Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Sunday, 01 June 2008, 13:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 01 June 2008, 12:55 GMT
This is not a bug. Just poor setup.

1) Kill all nm-applet processes and add nm-applet --sm-disable to the autostarted applications.
2) Log out of xfce.
3) Delete the XFCE session file (in ~/.cache/sessions/)
4) Log into xfce and all is good.

Comment by Christopher Stanton (Stanto) - Sunday, 01 June 2008, 13:48 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
Doing suggested solution causes five instances of nm-applet to be executed. It does not solve the problem.

Loading...