#646687 gnome-panel: freezes after trying to resize a window

Package:
gnome-panel
Source:
gnome-panel
Description:
traditional panel, used in GNOME Flashback
Submitter:
Stéphane Glondu
Date:
2011-10-26 13:57:16 UTC
Severity:
important
#646687#5
Date:
2011-10-26 08:34:36 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I am using GNOME 3 with awesome, via a custom
~/.config/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session

When I add something to the panel (alt + right click on it), a
seemingly resizable window pops up. When I try to resize it, it
doesn't work, and the whole graphical part of the window manager
freezes: I can no longer access the panel's menus, I can no longer
switch desktop using awesome's panel (but awesome's shortcuts still
work). When I "killall gnome-panel", it restarts and everything goes
back in place. Resizing windows from random applications (I tried
unison and gedit) works.

I can live with occasionally killing gnome-panel. However, a very
annoying thing is that, now, when I "killall gnome-panel" too much,
the whole session crashes with a "A something went wrong and you must
restart your session" message. Is there any way to disable this
"feature"?


Cheers,
#646687#10
Date:
2011-10-26 09:31:03 UTC
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To:
Am 26.10.2011 10:34, schrieb Stéphane Glondu:

Is this problem reproducible if you use metacity?

Michael
#646687#15
Date:
2011-10-26 09:46:51 UTC
From:
To:
No.
#646687#20
Date:
2011-10-26 13:53:29 UTC
From:
To:
Am 26.10.2011 10:34, schrieb Stéphane Glondu:
Actually, it seems that the mouse stops working altogether: the pointer
still works, but the GUI is not reactive to it, even in unrelated
applications (e.g. Icedove).