Description of problem: Can't add some plugins to XFCE panel, many of them (and the most important ones !) doesn't work. When I try to add this plugins to my panel, it only says "impossible to create <plugin> element on panel" (err .. translated literrally from french :s ). Plugins that bugs : - launcher - showdesktop - iconbox - pager - clock(datetime works) - windowlist - tasklist - systray - separator Other plugins, such as weather or cpuload work well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFCE: 4.4.1-1.fc7 quicklauncher: 1.9.2-3.fc7 taskmanager : 0.4.0-0.2.rc2.fc6 (??) There's no xfce4-systray, xfce4-iconbox, or other RPMs named like that installed on my system (and they are not available on default fedora repos). How reproducible: Install XFCE, and try to add one of the plugins listed before. Actual results: An error box saying that it couldn't create the plugin I asked for. Expected results: Just work. Additional info: I'm using f7.x86_64, I don't know if there's a bug on i386. I re-used my /home (created with fc6), but these bugs also appears when I create a new user.
Can you provide the output of a: yum list 'xfce4-*' ? I have had another report of some oddness going on on x86_64 installs. I suspect you might have the i386 versions of the plugins, but the x86_64 panel.
Created attachment 156371 [details] output of "yum list xfce4-*" The list shows that i386 packages installed are only '-panel' and '-session' (but x86_64 version is also installed for both).
ok. This is a xfce4-panel bug with multilib. It's already been filed as bug #228168. I am working now to fix it up... in the mean time as a work around, can you: - remove the xfce4-panel.i386 - remove the xfce4-panel.x86_64 - re-install the xfce4-panel.x86_64 only. ie, 'yum remove xfce4-panel.i386 xfce4-panel.x86_64' then 'yum install xfce4-panel.x86_64' It should then all work.
Worked well, thanks :) . What I've done: # yum remove xfce4-panel.i386 # rpm -e xfce4-panel.x86_64 --nodeps # yum install xfce4-panel
I can confirm that the panel is pretty much broken on x86_64: Default panels are completely empty except from the xfce-menu. None of the plugins in your list is showing up in the "Add Items to the Panel" dialog, but at least quicklauncher works after removing the i386 version of xfce4-panel. So it's definitely not the plugin but the panel itself. This is why I'll close this bug a duplicate of bug #228168 now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228168 ***