Comment 15 for bug 1347272

commit 216a5b750ccbe9fda98e0456a607230cd8c52303
Author: Eric Koegel <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jun 26 19:46:46 2014 +0300

    Fork before gtk/dbus init

    https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2014-May/030715.html
    has the rational for the change.

http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/commit/?id=216a5b750ccbe9fda98e0456a607230cd8c52303

So it shouldn't have that issue anymore. Do you still have startup issues with xfpm using the code from git/master? We haven't done a dev release with the commit in yet.