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tacticalbread
May 27th, 2009, 11:54 AM
I've installed the xfce4-globalmenu-plugin from ppa.launchpad.net, and I can't get it working.

I installed the package just fine, so I have the dependencies and whatnot, but whenever I add it to my panel, nothing shows up, although when I right click the area I get this:
http://albums.kimag.es/albums/tacticalbread/65761693.png

any ideas why it's not working?

it's quite aggravating, as this is basically the only thing keeping me from switching to xfce.

Fzang
May 27th, 2009, 03:25 PM
Have you checked the checkbox that activates it? Stupid question but you never know

tacticalbread
May 27th, 2009, 07:34 PM
well that seems to be the problem. With the GNOME global menu plugin, I just right clicked the area, and there was a preferences option there, but with this one I get nothing. Also, when I click close on the Add New Items dialog, the plugin goes away, so I can't even get into it's useless right click menu.

I've tried restarting the panel, and restarting my xfce session.

There has to be something wrong, as it was so easy to activate the GNOME plugin.

tacticalbread
May 27th, 2009, 08:32 PM
well alright. I logged out, and logged back in again, and I had about six global menu plugins, all working, and all on the same panel. :P

Rushuhh
April 1st, 2010, 06:34 PM
I tried logging out and restarting, but I still have the same problem as you. Any solutions?

morgengenuss
May 25th, 2010, 09:00 PM
use version 0.7.8, at least for me (on xubuntu lucid) version 0.7.9 didn't work.

not even sure filing a bugreport makes sense as the xfce-panel-plugin is currently unmaintained.

jmite
June 27th, 2010, 03:25 AM
sorry to revive this thread, but could the OP post a link to the ppa you're talking about? I have not been able to find anything but elusive refrences to the xfce global panel plugin

dankles
August 4th, 2010, 06:07 AM
sorry to revive this thread, but could the OP post a link to the ppa you're talking about? I have not been able to find anything but elusive refrences to the xfce global panel plugin

https://launchpad.net/~globalmenu-team/+archive/ppa

the xfce pluggin is in that.

you can see the packages here: http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-globalmenu/

Josh_D
February 14th, 2011, 02:48 PM
I'm having the same problem, the entire thing is blank. I'd install GM 0.7.8 but I have enough issues with linux as it is so is there any way to fix it using Xubuntu 10.04 and GM 0.7.9?