N900: Droid4: hildon-status-menu not showing anymore 'Availability' button (on N900) / 'Brightness' and 'Tor' button (on Droid4)

[Arno1103]

Symptoms: 'Availability' button disappeared in mid-January from hildon-status-menu on N900, from an up-to-date -devel device AND from a fresh install too. Two months later, Inky noticed a similar issue on Droid 4, concerning 'Brightness' and 'Tor' button.
Restarting the applet or reboot doesn't solve the issue.

Cause: unknown

Workaround: hildon-status-menu seems to start too early from Xsession when some functionalities/apps are added to the applet. Starting hildon-status-menu later solves the issue with absolutely no troubles. (tested on N900 for 2 months)

potential fix: rename 15hildon-status-menu to 75hildon-status-menu in /etc/X11/Xsession.post

[Arno1103]

Inky has already try the fix on his D4 and hildon-status-menu buttons work again after reboot.
See https://libera.irclog.whitequark.org/maemo-leste/2024-03-25#36055301;

[MerlijnWajer]

It would be good (IMO) to figure out why this is happening - i.e. what is causing the crash. @freemangordon - what do you think would be a good way to do this? Do we need to start saving coredumps or something?

[freemangordon]

I think yes, maybe it is time to put sp-rich-core in the repo. However, I closed the PR at it is not even a workaround, as we dont; even know what the issue is.