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hjorthboggild

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 89

Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

If I for instance type in 'Terminal' (without the qoutation marks) in the Deskbar-applet it will suggest the following: Launch Terminal (gnome-terminal), but when I press it, Deskbar-applet crashes everytime, actually it does that with many things when it suggests to Launch something

Is anyone else experiencing that behaviour?

Regards,
Simon

sputnik

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-06-24

Posts: 98

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

Just tried what you said and it crashed.

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

please try to give terminal output and such instead of just saying, it does not work.
I just checked for the cli output when crashing, it is

Match selected:  <programs.GenericProgramMatch instance at 0xb6470a0c>
/opt/gnome/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/programs.py:64: GtkWarning: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  self._desktop.launch([])

I'll see if I can find a solution.

hjorthboggild

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 89

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

pressh, I would have liked to have given error messages, but I did not know how to catch them from the Deskbar-applet :-)

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

pressh, I would have liked to have given error messages, but I did not know how to catch them from the Deskbar-applet :-)

you can run applets from cli. for deskbar applet the following command runs it in its own window

 /opt/gnome/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet -w

hjorthboggild

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 89

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

Okay, thanks for the info, I'll make use of that next time, should such a problem occur

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

this might be well related to the problem

Initializing Programs

(deskbar-applet:4819): Gnome-WARNING **: gnome-program.c:1015: Directory properties not set correctly.  Cannot locate application specific files.

[edit]
quick question, was it working before, as in the 2.14.0 version ?
because in /opt/gnome/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/programs.py there is

# FIXME: This does not launch the App with passed parameters because they are not files..
#self._desktop.launch(text.split(" "), deskbar.gnomedesktop.LAUNCH_APPEND_PATHS|deskbar.gnomedesktop.LAUNCH_ONLY_ONE)

and version 2.14 also doesn't work out of the box on my machine

hjorthboggild

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 89

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

I'm almost certain that it didn't work either in the 2.14.0 version, since I just upgraded to 2.14.1 today, and I believe I experienced these problems already a week ago when trying the Deskbar-applet

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

It seems that it is related to gnome applications only, which makes sense from my previous post. I'm going to look a bit deeper into libgnome, which could be the package giving these problems.

nightfrost

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

I'm having the same problem. Didn't have it with 2.14.0. The problem occured just recently after an update a few days ago.

nightfrost

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

Everything's fine now again after the latest update. Thanks devs

hjorthboggild

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 89

Re: Deskbar-applet 2.14.1 crashes

The new Deskbar-applet update seems to have solved the problem now :-)