Wbar problem after recent updates

[uggla]

I have my wbar on the right side of the screen but when I load Xprogs, wbar is moved to the bottom. This wasn't happening for Core 4.2.

[uggla]

Has anyone been able to replicate this, or is it just my installation?

[Rich]

Hi uggla
Just a guess, but maybe try moving xprogs up in your  onboot.lst?

[uggla]

I have it as ondemand.

[uggla]

I've found why the wbar moves. Loading Xprogs closes the initial instance of wbar and starts a new one AS ROOT. Please fix.

[Rich]

Hi uggla
If you don't mind me asking, why do you want to load  xprogs  ondemand?

[uggla]

Why load onboot if you don't use it that often?

[Rich]

Hi uggla
Quite honestly, I only use ondemand on one of my machines, and that is for Flashplayer so that it
doesn't load and gobble up 70Mb of RAM just because some site feels the need to use Flash
because they can, not because they have to. Example: A number of years ago I needed a new
hard drive. When I clicked on the  Weekly Specials Flyer  button on the Best Buy website, it told
me I had to install Flashplayer. My response was "no I don't", as I moved on and found a really
good deal at Office Depo , located in the same shopping mall.
Since extensions are loop mounted and therefore use very little RAM, I just leave everything onboot
so I don't need to keep track of what is onboot and what is ondemand, but that's just me, to each
there own.

[Pseudoman]

I'm not sure if this is related to your problem with Xprogs.tcz and Wbar, but when I try to move wbar to the bottom-left through the "wbar conf" tool, wbar just sits at the bottom-middle.
I found that the configure tool writes a wbar configuration file that is missing the "-pos" argument, effectively omitting the position information. Something similar might be happening here with your wbar configuration. If you can manually edit the configuration file, then it should work as a workaround until the TC team resolves the issue.

[uggla]

There are still problems in core 4.3 related to this. Running acroread from a terminal opened from wbar do normally work but doing the same after loading Xprogs ondemand generates this error:

Adobe Reader does not need to be run as a privileged user. Please remove 'sudo' from the beginning of the command.

Is wbar restarted using sudo?

Running acroread from a terminal opened from the flwm menu works both before and after Xprogs is loaded.

[roberts]

ps | grep wbar

Looks like tc to me!

[uggla]

But why can't I start acroread from wbar after Xprogs is loaded? Acroread is obviously detecting something. Any ideas what? 

I can send my acroread.tcz, just tell me where to.

[Rich]

Hi uggla
Did you upgrade to 4.3 from a previous version? If so, did you remember to:

Note must update Xlibs.tcz, Xprogs.tcz, wbar.tcz, and supported window manager as may be required.

[uggla]

I remembered

[uggla]

I think I've found it!

If I recreate the wbar by rerunning /usr/local/tce.installed/Xprogs as user tc then I can start acroread from wbar again. But if I then rerun /usr/local/tce.installed/Xprogs using sudo then I can't. It seems that the tce.installed scripts are run as superuser.