[tray-icon] xpad won't restart after "show desktop"

[Jake]

whenever I "show desktop" either through alt+tab or through my toolbar, xpad will not start up again when I try to access, again either through alt+tab or on my toolbar. Please fix, xpad is the only sticky notes app that packs all the functionality I need into a sleek package, cheers!

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Jake,

Which OS and Xpad are you using?
Are you able to verify if xpad is actually still running, although not visibile?

[Jake (jake-sauter3)]

Hi Arthur,

            After attempting to install a newer version of xpad not from
the software center, and I believe in installing gtk3, I no longer have the
issue. Now the only issue I am having is that the position of the pad is
not saving in the config file, but again this is for version 4.5 on ubuntu
16.04. When I try to install the newer versions, like 4.9 and 5, the
project cannot compile because of depreciated gtk functions I believe. The
output is the following

sudo ./configure && make && make install

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for /proc/self/maps... yes
checking whether everything is installed to the same prefix... no
checking whether binary relocation support should be enabled... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for intltool >= 0.31... 0.51.0 found
checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.22.1
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTK... yes
checking for GTK_SOURCE_VIEW... yes
checking for GLIB... yes
checking for PANGO... yes
checking for PIXBUF... yes
checking for ATK... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes...

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Jake,

Do I understand correctly that you have resolved the issue yourself?
If so, can I close this bug report?

[Jake (jake-sauter3)]

the bug I opened is solved, the new bug is not, have you not seen this
compilation error before?

On Dec 8, 2017 11:45 AM, "Arthur Borsboom" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Jake,
>
> Do I understand correctly that you have resolved the issue yourself?
> If so, can I close this bug report?
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736462
>
> Title:
> xpad won't resart after "show desktop"
>
> Status in Xpad:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> whenever I "show desktop" either through alt+tab or through my
> toolbar, xpad will not start up again when I try to access, again
> either through alt+tab or on my toolbar. Please fix, xpad is the only
> sticky notes app that packs all the functionality I need into a sleek
> package, cheers!
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xpad/+bug/1736462/+subscriptions
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[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Jake,

Regarding the compilation error "undefined reference to
gtk_menu_popup_at_pointer", I am guessing that the GTK (development) version in your Linux distribution is not new enough. This GTK function has been introduced in GTK v3.22.

Can you verify that this package is sufficiently new and if so, retry?