Re: Tasktray is Broken In Karmic

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30:01 +0000
Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:26:28 +0100
> Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:17:14 +0100
> > Mark Williams <[email protected]> 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.
> The important thing is that it gets a newer version number to stop it
> being replaced by the unfixed official version when you upgrade.>
> debuild -uc -us
> cd ..
> sudo dpkg -i libwnck*.deb
> 

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

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