Bug 27581

Summary:	Cannot add a genmon plugin to an xfce4 panel
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Juergen Harms <juergen.harms>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ouaurelien
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	xfce4-genmon-plugin-4.0.2-3.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Juergen Harms 2020-11-08 23:01:32 CET

Description of problem:

Impossible to add a genmon plugin to an Xfce panel - see steps to reproduce


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfce4-genmon-plugin-4.0.2-3.mga8, installed as an update Oct.31

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Panel hit -> Panel -> Add New Items -> Generic Monitor
2.Hit Add
3.

A popup window will appear:
Plugin "Generic Monitor" unexpectdely left the panel, do you want ot restart it?
Its "Execute button" simply re-pops up the window, get out by hitting "Abandon".
No genmon plugin has been created (but a plugin-id has been reserved).

This problem has not been present when I installed Cauldron - it arrived with some later update - but was already present before the update to xfce4-panel-4.15.5-1, installed today.

On my laptop, where I had generated a genmon plugin a long time ago and did not modify my panel since, the plugin still exists in the panel and works (but if I login as another user, adding a genmon plugin in that users panel fails.) 

Genmon is not a toy - it serves as a workaround against the disappearance of the kbd-led plugin, essential if a machine does not have a Numlock or Keybard-lock indicator).

Fully updated system as off 8.11.2020

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2020-11-09 16:26:52 CET

Added patches from upstream to fix the issue. Please test xfce4-genmon-plugin-4.0.2-4.mga8.

Source RPM: xfce4-panel-4.15.5-1.mga8.src.rpm => xfce4-genmon-plugin-4.0.2-3.mga8.src.rpm

Comment 2 Juergen Harms 2020-11-09 19:23:48 CET

Thanks for the extremely rapid reply. And yes, that fixed the problem: closing the bug report as resolved

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 3 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-11-09 19:28:11 CET

Hi, thanks reporting this.
Thanks Jani for quickly as Flash to resolve this.
I don't mind that as it is reportés to Cauldron to close this by yourself.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien