When you add a text object to a label the new text object appears with the word "Text" in it. The usual object properties controls appears on the right ... and then these disappear again. I can find no way of getting them back. I have tried re-emergeing glabels on the off chance but it makes no difference. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See above. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4. 20041102-r1, 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 4 2005, 17:45:11)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.9.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/ 3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/ shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo-sources/ ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X adns alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I can't reproduce this. Please be more specific. What version of gLabels? What do you mean by "then these disappear again"? What properties exactly and how do they disappear? Why "again"? Please describe a series of steps that consistently replicate the problem so we can study it.
> What version of gLabels? Latest i.e. 2.0.2 > What do you mean by "then these disappear again"? They appear for a fraction of a second. Then they disappear. > What properties exactly The usual tabbed boxes you get on the right for a text object "Text", "Style" etc > and how do they disappear? Replaced by the gray frame background, as if they had never been there at all. > Why "again"? Just a figure of speech. They disappear. End of story. Ignore the "again". > Please describe a series of steps that consistently replicate the problem so > we can study it. Which part of "Reproducible: Always" wasn't clear? It always happens. However I have discovered something interesting which may give you a clue. I'm running Gentoo on this desktop PC. I also have a laptop running SuSE. If I log into the desktop PC from my laptop and run it on the PC using the X server on the laptop for the display it works fine. I don't really understand the interaction between X apps and the underlying window manager but is it possible that this version glabels isn't compatible with the latest GTK stuff I saw come over in a recent 'emerge -u world' but is with the older version (which I'll still have on that SuSE laptop)?
Aha. I think I can tell you how to re-produce it. I bet you're using Gnome. Try using KDE 3.3.2. I've just discovered that it works fine for me under Gnome. It only exhibits this behaviour under KDE.
It looks as if the problem may be related to your X client on the desktop, and not related to gLabels at all. Do other programs show strange behaviour like this one? Are you using any special X extensions on the desktop machine? Also, could you post a screenshot so we can have a better idea of the problem? Thanks
> Do other programs show strange behaviour like this one? Not that I've noticed. I don't use that many programs from the Gnome side of the fence but I've checked Gnumeric and that looks fine as does GRadio. Everything else I use: Thunderbird, Firefox, Xemacs, GnuCash, the GIMP, Opera, Wine are all working fine. And if I've not already said so glabels did work on this PC until very recently. I've used it without problems in the last couple of weeks. > Are you using any special X extensions on the desktop machine? No, it's an out of the box KDE system as far as I'm aware. > Also, could you post a screenshot so we can have a better idea of the problem? Sure. See http://the-hug.org/paul/files/glabels.png - this is how it looks just after I've put a text object on the label and the properties controls on the right have appeared and then disappeared.
For reference, this probably is the same bug as this: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170031 I can reproduce the problem now following the steps mentioned there. However, it's not clear how to fix it or where to look exactly for this, so waiting for an upstream fix or more information.
I agree. This does at least provide a temporary "fix" - re-size the glabels window first to make it larger, then add a text object and it works fine. It's a bodge but it's better that nothing.
Paul, Is this bug still an issue with current stable or unstable versions of glabel? If you still encounter this bug, please don't hesitate to reopen this bug with updated emerge --info and version info. Thanks
I've checked and 2.04 (the current stables version) doesn't exhibit this behaviour so I've marked this bug closed.
