GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 122584
drawer won't launch applications after a reboot
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable Package: gnome-panel Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.4.0 2.4.x Gnome-Distributor: GNOME.Org Synopsis: drawer won't launch applications after a reboot Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel Bugzilla-Component: Panel Bugzilla-Version: 2.4.x Description: Description of Problem: Launchers in a drawer on the panel stop working after a reboot. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Add a drawer to the panel 2. Add a couple of application launchers to the drawer 3. Launch applications from the drawer...it works fine 4. Reboot system 5. Open drawer and try to launch an application...it does nothing Actual Results: Expected Results: How often does this happen? every time. you can remove the drawer, create a new one and populate it with application launchers and they will work. As soon as you reboot, they cease to work. Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-09-17 19:11 ------- The original reporter (ed@ge-and-dl-waldron.org) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Just a few things to add here. 1) You do not need to reboot to make this happen. Logging out of GNOME (and X) is enough to break all your drawers in one fell swoop. 2) The launchers all become completey unusable in every way except that its icon is still visible. You cannot even remove them, right clicking on them brings up the drawer's menu. You can, however, add a new launcher that will work until you log out. 3) Using 'Add to panel > Launcher from menu', right clicking on an item, and selecting 'Entire menu > Add this as drawer to panel' is broken. The drawer gets created and all the icons show up, but are inoperable as noted above. I think it's related to this bug. 4) This happened specifically with gnome-panel-2.4.0. Reverting to 2.3.90 fixes everything.
Just to confirm, this happens on two of my FreeBSD systems as well. Once you restart the panel, the launcher icons on drawers are no longer clickable.
I just looked, and this is actually a dup of #121072 which is fixed in gnome-panel CVS.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121072 ***