upgrading xfce4 fails

[John Nielsen]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:48, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Markus Hoenicka writes:
>  > There's one thing broken though: After the upgrade, panel plugins fail
>  > to display correct values. The battery monitor claims the battery of
>  > my laptop is at 0%. The network monitor plugin also sees the traffic
>  > at 0 kbyte/s no matter what I do. The volume plugin displays a value
>  > according to where I click in the plugin, but this does not translate
>  > to a higher or lower volume. Inversely, if I set the volume using
>  > xfce4-mixer, the value is not correctly displayed by the plugin. Did
>  > you notice similar problems? Did I miss to upgrade a package that all
>  > plugins rely on?
>
> Oops... The network monitor and the volume control plugins just
> required the network interfaces and device settings, respectively, and
> now work ok. Still, the battery monitor does not. Any clues?

There's a PR open for this with a working patch:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/108322

Download it and apply it in the ports/sysutils/xfce4-battery-plugin 
directory then rebuild the port. It fixed the problem for me. I'm sure it 
will be committed shortly.

JN