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Rami Jaamour | 1 Sep 2006 18:49
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Application windows disappear when others are shown or closed

I'm using SuSE 10.1, which comes with GNome 2.12.2. The machine is an
Intel x86-64, ATI x300.

I have a strange problem where application windows disappear from
without a trace while the process remains running. The problem affects a
wide range of applications: nautilus, terminal, firefox, java apps,
eclipse, etc.

The problem is very unpredictable, but it usually happens when one app
shows a dialog, closes a dialog, or when a window is closed.  These
events suddenly kill the parent window of the same application and often
kill other application windows too! Sometimes this includes the
gnome-panel disappearing, and also all desktop icons.

When I open the GNOME system monitor, I can see that the disappeared
window processes are still running, but I can't find a way to resurrect
their windows back to bring them to the front. However, if the window
that disappeared is something like firefox or gedit, then these can get
resurrected when I hit a link (to open a new tab in firefox) or open a
new text document because as you know, these actions reuse the same
running instance so it merely brings the current process window to the
front; this tells me that the app process is still running fine, but
it's just that its window is gone for some reason!  The disappeared
windows are not listed in neither window selector or window panel.

When I log off, I sometimes notice the disappeared windows flashing back
quickly - but I'm not sure about this.

My questions is:
1) on the short term, as a workaround, is there some signal or a way to
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Afief Halumi | 2 Sep 2006 22:56
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Re: Very big project!

Sure there are people up to it, although i'm not quite a seasoned
developer(rather a hobby coder.)

What's missing is someone to write out exactly what the program should
include and how it is supposed to work(yeah we clould all download
crocodile software, but are we copying or creating new stuff?)

So since you're the one with the hours in front of a chemistry lab(i
hate chemistry) if you were to write out some moderately detailed
specifications/features i am sure someone will develop it.

Afief

On 8/29/06, Alec Wright <alecjw <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> Just here to point out a critical bug in gnome:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1 (I know that's an Ubuntu
> bug, but it also applies to Gnome.)
> Here's one of the many steps which need to be taken to fix it:
> There should be a program called Glab, short for Gnome Laboratory. It
> should be an open source linux version of crocodile chemistry
> (http://www.crocodile-clips.com/crocodile/chemistry/), a virtual
> chemistry lab. I always used to sit in front of my windoze computer for
> hours playing on it...
> Anyone up for this challenge?
> _______________________________________________
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> gnome-list <at> gnome.org
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Bob Barrett | 2 Sep 2006 23:17
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Totem not automatic

Totem will not play movie DVDs when inserted. First, some hardware and 
software information:

Processor: AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ 1243.537 MHz
           L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
           L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)

Mainboard: ASUS M7A625 A7N8X/K7/NC18D/AGP8X

BOIS:      Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG
           ASUS A7N8X2.0 ACPI BIOS Rev 1007
           AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+
           Mem: 524288k

Graphics:  NVIDIA  GF FX5200 256MB DDR TV DVI  S/N EHS028470

Sound:     Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2

DVD:       hdd: TDK DVDRW420N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
           hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Not the latest, but it has been reliable, and I'm not a gamer.
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Software:

Linux 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 #1 Sat Jul 1 13:03:45 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386

gnome-session.i386                       2.14.2-1.fc5.1
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David Abrahams | 2 Sep 2006 23:14
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Re: log out button delay

Christian Kirbach <christian.kirbach <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:38:42 +0200, David Abrahams  
> <dave <at> boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>>>> When I click the log out button I usually have to wait 7 seconds
>>>> before the window with the restart/shut down/hibernate/suspend
>>>> operations appears.
>>> I can see this as well with all windows/dialogues that are spawned
>>> by processes of the root user, but the delay is considerably longer.
>> Yes, I have the same experience for any application that wants me to
>> type my sudo password on startup.
>
> The logout in particular is an Ubuntu-made thing in Dapper. Also all  
> sudo-related stuff.
> Sounds like this is worth filing an Ubuntu bug at lauchpad. You can PM me  
> the bug number and I will
> add a comment.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/58641
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Nelson Benítez | 3 Sep 2006 01:17

Re: Totem not automatic

> Any ideas?
>

 I think you should file a bug for Totem, you can do it in the following
link:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=totem
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Mark Ness | 3 Sep 2006 01:26
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Re: Totem not automatic

Don't know if this is related or not... 
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99554&highlight=totem+dvd+auto+play
Bob Barrett wrote:
> Totem will not play movie DVDs when inserted. First, some hardware and 
> software information:
>
> Processor: AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ 1243.537 MHz
>            L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
>            L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
>
> Mainboard: ASUS M7A625 A7N8X/K7/NC18D/AGP8X
>
> BOIS:      Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG
>            ASUS A7N8X2.0 ACPI BIOS Rev 1007
>            AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+
>            Mem: 524288k
>
> Graphics:  NVIDIA  GF FX5200 256MB DDR TV DVI  S/N EHS028470
>
> Sound:     Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
>
> DVD:       hdd: TDK DVDRW420N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>            hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>
> Not the latest, but it has been reliable, and I'm not a gamer.
> _____
>
> Software:
>
> Linux 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 #1 Sat Jul 1 13:03:45 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386
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Mark Ness | 3 Sep 2006 01:34
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Re: Totem not automatic

There are more threads here...
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/search.php?searchid=2214699
Mark Ness wrote:
Don't know if this is related or not... http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99554&highlight=totem+dvd+auto+play Bob Barrett wrote:
Totem will not play movie DVDs when inserted. First, some hardware and software information: Processor: AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ 1243.537 MHz L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) Mainboard: ASUS M7A625 A7N8X/K7/NC18D/AGP8X BOIS: Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG ASUS A7N8X2.0 ACPI BIOS Rev 1007 AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ Mem: 524288k Graphics: NVIDIA GF FX5200 256MB DDR TV DVI S/N EHS028470 Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 DVD: hdd: TDK DVDRW420N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Not the latest, but it has been reliable, and I'm not a gamer. _____ Software: Linux 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 #1 Sat Jul 1 13:03:45 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 gnome-session.i386 2.14.2-1.fc5.1 libdvdcss.i386 1.2.9-2.fc5 totem-xine.i386 1.4.0-4.lvn5 _____ Problem: Totem will load and play, automatically, music CDs when inserted. This doesn't with movies. Totem will start and crash with an error message. I can get it to play movies with this routine: 1) Insert the movie DVD and wait for Totem to start and quit with the message: "Cannot Mount Volume. You are not privileged to mount the volume 'MovieName'" 2) Run "mount /dvd" in a terminal. Totem will start and stop, but not quit, with the message: "Totem was not able to play this disc. No reason." Accept this message. 3) Bring down the Movie menu and click "Play Disk...". Totem then plays the movie fine. I can live with this, but something is wrong. Any ideas? Thanks for your help, Bob bobbrrtt <at> earthlink.net _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list <at> gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
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Jonathan Brandmeyer | 3 Sep 2006 03:41
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Re: Move panel via software?

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 19:41 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I dynamically switch into dual-head mode with an extended
> desktop, my Gnome panels are almost never on the screen I want them to
> be on.  Is there a way to move them under software control?

wmctrl might be able to do what you want.

>   If so, I
> can hook that into my ACPI system.

HTH,
-Jonathan
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Alan | 3 Sep 2006 08:45
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Re: Very big project!

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:22:33PM +0100, Alec Wright wrote:
> Hi!
> Just here to point out a critical bug in gnome: 
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1 (I know that's an Ubuntu 
> bug, but it also applies to Gnome.)
> Here's one of the many steps which need to be taken to fix it:
> There should be a program called Glab, short for Gnome Laboratory. It 
> should be an open source linux version of crocodile chemistry 
> (http://www.crocodile-clips.com/crocodile/chemistry/), a virtual 
> chemistry lab. I always used to sit in front of my windoze computer for 

Have you tried under WINE?

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Polonkai Gergely | 4 Sep 2006 09:20
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Mounted partitions appear on my desktop

Hello,

I've just bought a new hard drive, created two partitions on it, and
mounted them as root via sudo. It suddenly appeared on my "normal"
user's desktop. I said, nevermind, they will disappear after reboot. But
they didn't. How can I make them disappear?
The fstab entries for them:

/dev/hdb1       /home/store     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdb5       /home/store2    ext3    defaults        0       2

Regards,
Gergely POLONKAI
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