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gnome-panel package

Run Application on 20070319.1 seems to refresh Gnome

Bug #94433 reported by Marc Tardif
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I'm running 20070319.1 on a System76 Z62F laptop. When pressing Alt-F2 to Run Application, pressing the Run... button seems to refresh Gnome. One of the side effects is that the battery applet disappears from the toolbar and appears in a little window of its own.

Reproduction steps:
1. Press Alt-F2
2. Enter "gedit"
3. Press Run...

Expected result:
The gedit application should appear.

Actual result:
The whole window manager flashes, as if it was refreshing itself. Then, the battery applet from the toolbar disappears and reappears in its own window.

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Marc Tardif (cr3) wrote :

To more precise, pressing the Run... button in the Run Application window while Gnome is still loading its applets does not seem to refresh the window manager.

However, after waiting a few seconds for Gnome to load its applets, pressing the Run... button consistently seems to refresh the window manager.

Also, instead of actually pressing the Run... button, I also tried escaping from the Run Application window. That also seems to refresh the window manager!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Are you sure that's not gnome-panel crashing? Does it happen every time?

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Marc Tardif (cr3) wrote :

Yes, it seems to be gnome-panel crashing. Here is what I did:

1. Look at the current pid of gnome-panel
2. Pressed the Run... button to reproduce the problem
3. Looked at the pid of gnome-panel again

The pids before and after the problem were indeed different.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you get an apport crash report then or could you get a backtrace (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash)? That could be a duplicate from bug #90444

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Marc Tardif (cr3) wrote :

I did not notice apport ever appearing when gnome-panel was running. However, after installing gnome-panel-dbgsym, apport appeared when I attempted to reproduce the problem. So, you will find the generated information in bug #96064:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/96064

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