Installation and use of the ROX Desktop ()

Abrolag | 6 Dec 2009 23:54

Re: Tasktray is Broken In Karmic

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30:01 +0000
Tony Houghton <h <at> realh.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:26:28 +0100
> Tony Houghton <h <at> realh.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:17:14 +0100
> > Mark Williams <mark.williams <at> ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd post the bug report except this bleeding pop up window stops me from 
> > > doing so.
> > 
> > Oh no, they've gone and let that bug into Karmic have they? There's a
> > very simple patch at
> > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549271> and
> > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597319>. Please report the
> > bug to Ubuntu too if someone else hasn't already.
> 
> Ubuntu are aware of it, but according to upstream the bug is in libwnck,
> not the python bindings.
> 
> To fix it:
> 
> apt-get source libwnck
> cd libwnck-2.28.0
> <Drop the attached patch into debian/patches>
> rm libwnck/wnck-enum-types.*
> sudo apt-get build-dep libwnck
> dch -i
> <This opens the changelog in a text editor. Add some blurb if you like.

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Tony Houghton | 7 Dec 2009 00:22

Re: Tasktray is Broken In Karmic

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:54:16 +0000
Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Finally had time to try this out.
> 
> It seems to work fine with tasktray but devtray has a problem.
> 
> If you double-click on devtray to open a window it is OK, but if you
> drag it to the icon bar it 'soft' crashes roxfiler - in that you can
> restart rox and everything then works correctly, including tasktray.
> 
> Curiously if you have it loaded on the icon bar and do a restart
> everything works without problems!
> 
> This is running on debian squeeze

Yes, that's been happening to me (Debian sid) and Mark Williams (IIRC)
(Ubuntu) lately too, it isn't just DevTray. I think there's an obscure
bug in recent versions of GTK+.  I'll have to see if I can gather enough
information by using --sync and *-dbg packages to file a useful bug
report.

When developing Media I found that I could make the crashes at least
much rarer by changing the order in which the hierarchy of the applet's
widgets are shown and placed inside each other etc, but I'm not sure I
enirely cured it.

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