Description Jérôme Guelfucci 2009-09-04 21:40:32 CEST

Your last Xfconf fixed the freeze in the Appearance dialog, but this dialog and the Xfwm4 dialog still do not work: all settings which rely on "sending" information to Xfsettingsd using Xfconf  do not work. The setting is changed correctly in xfconf but it seems xfsettingsd never gets the "property-changed" signal.

I wrote a simple test program which seems to confirm this:

#include <xfconf/xfconf.h>

void property_changed (XfconfChannel *channel,
                       gchar         *property,
                       GValue        *value,
                       gpointer       user_data)
{
  g_printf ("Property changed: %s", property);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  XfconfChannel *channel;

  gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

  if (!xfconf_init (NULL))
    return 1;

  channel = xfconf_channel_get ("xfce4-desktop");

  g_signal_connect (channel, "property-changed",
                    (GCallback) property_changed, NULL);

  gtk_main ();

  return 0;
}

When I change a setting using xfdesktop's setting dialog, nothing happens in this test program, but xfdesktop updates the desktop view correctly. The "property-changed" signal is maybe sent only to the first app which "grabs" the channel ???