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Re: [trinity-users] TDE Panel problems

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 23:56:31 -0600
> El 06/12/11 23:27, "Alejandro Téllez C." escribió:
>> El 06/12/11 23:19, Timothy Pearson escribió:
>>>> El 06/12/11 22:56, Timothy Pearson escribió:
>>>>>> Hello again.
>>>>>> I have managed to install my desktop environment, alongside with
>>>>>> KDE4
>>>>>> and GNOME 3. Most of the desktop environment seems to work okay,
>>>>>> except
>>>>>> for two major issues.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. There is no shutdown option in the menu, despite the option to
>>>>>> provide shutdown options is enabled in the settings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Upon highlighting the System and Preferences menus, the panel
>>>>>> seems
>>>>>> to crash. After a first crash, it restarts. But after a second
>>>>>> crash,
>>>>>> the panel does not seem to load anymore unless I re log.
>>>>> Are you using Kicker or Kickoff?
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
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>>>> Hmmm... I don't know. I think it is Kicker. It's the Windows-like
>>>> menu.
>>>>
>>> Yes, that sounds like Kicker.
>>>
>>> I have not seen this behaviour before.  It is possible that you are
>>> seeing
>>> some kind of interaction between KDE4 and TDE, but I am not sure.
>>>
>>> What is the name and version of the Linux distribution you are
>>> running TDE
>>> on?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
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>> I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.
>> The rest of the menus seem to open without any problem. It is only the
>> "Preferences" and "System" ones that cause the panel to crash. I tried
>> to switch to Kickoff. It has a more KDE 4 like-appearance, but does
>> not seem to work at all (completely empty).
> Well, on a second thought, Kickoff seems to work just fine, even with
> those menus. But I keep having problem with Kicker itself. I guess I
> will stick with Kickoff for now.
>

Before you switch, can you install the tdebase-trinity-dbg package and
generate a backtrace for us?  That way we can look into the cause of the
problem you are experiencing.

Thanks!

Tim