Emerald crashes when requested to hide itself

i just want to add that it crashes 90% of the times that i restore a maximized window and when it doesnt crash the title bar's buttons (close, minimize...) dissapear. I can still click them but they are not visible. There is just an empty title bar, and if i minimize and restore then they appear again.

But as i said 90% it will crash..

I have the same bug:

define@dv5:~$ emerald
/home/define/.themes/Infinity on high/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:578: error: invalid string constant "terminal", expected valid string constant

(emerald:31170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GdkDrawable'

(emerald:31170): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_create: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed
Ошибка сегментирования
define@dv5:~$

sorry. new on this bug tracker. got this bug on ubuntu netbook 10.4 while trying to use compiz, emerald. than I try to minimize window by double click on applet [Window Applets: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=103732]. every time. but without running [maximus / Maximus windowdown management] (then it is close) - it seems to be ok.

sorry for my english

I just experienced this bug (Emerald crashing in combination with Window-applets, set to hide decorations for maximized windows) and decided to play around a little. My relevant setup is:

Intel GMA 950
Ubuntu 10.10 64bit,
Default Compiz
Default Emerald
Window Applets 0.2.8

I disabled the setting in Window Applets to hide decorations for maximized windows, went to Compiz Settings Manager and set "!state=maxvert" for window decorations. This solved Emerald crashing. Things now work as expected: On maximize, decorations are removed and the window can be controlled via Window Applets. On restore, Emerald decorations return - without any crashes.

Setting the Window Applets key to remove decorations on maximized windows again makes Emerald crash once more. This behaviour is reproduceable.

Thank you sharing the wonderful workaround Tobias! It will definitely solve the problem for Window Applets, however the actual bug in Emerald still remains. Apparently Emerald gets confused specifically by horizontal maximization.

-- Just deactivate the option 'Use Button Fade' in the Emerald Settings.

mine never crashed since.

Huy L's workaround works perfectly. Thanks!

No Problem :))

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.