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Bug 495395 - applets do not load! (after geometry of desk top changes??)
applets do not load! (after geometry of desk top changes??)
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-09 20:14 UTC by stuart
Modified: 2009-07-24 17:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description stuart 2007-11-09 20:14:51 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
On the console, the applets (i.e. clock) load on the bottom panel.  However, on a vnc session, the bottom console will not allow the loading of any applets.  I believe the fix is to reload the gnome-applets package.  However, I think this will get the vnc session working but will probably break the console.  But I haven't verified this yet.

Before an upgrade, applets were loading with out any problems into the panel for both the console and vnc sessions.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start a vncserver session.
2. Use vncviewer to view the session.
3. Try adding applets to the bottom gnome panel.  

Did you get "The panel encountered a problem while loading... applet"?


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-11-15 11:11:16 UTC 
what "upgrade"?
Comment 2 stuart 2007-11-19 17:22:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> what "upgrade"?
> 

Sorry, the exact update is unknown.  If I had to guess, I started to have problems on a RedHat F6 desk top after a "yum update".  The desk top is now running RedHat F7.  To help, I did notice the following line is entered into /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

AUDIT: Mon Nov 19 11:16:02 2007: 3412 Xorg: client 4 rejected from local host (uid xxx)

...I removed the actual uid number - just paranoid I guess.

This happens for every applet that can not be added to the panel.  The above was a manual add after the window session had already started.

Questions:
1) Is this a permission problem?
2) If I owned the console while evoking a vncserver, would the applets load on the vnc window session?

...I'll have to try these things later.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2009-05-16 12:54:20 UTC 
Is this still an issue in 2.24/2.26?
Comment 4 André Klapper 2009-07-24 17:40:04 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!