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Re: Gabber won't go into Gnome status dock



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:08:05PM -0700, Joshua Penix wrote:
| I'm running Gabber 0.8.7 on Debian Woody with a straight GNOME desktop
| (Sawfish WM).  The default Debian layout includes a little status dock
| on the top toolbar.  As I understand it, this status dock is supposed to
| take the status icons from programs such as Gabber.

Yep.

| Looking in the Gabber preferences, it even has a checkbox for turning on
| the "docklet," and that checkbox's rollover text says "Right-click the
| panel and Add To Panel -> Status dock."
| 
| However, when I turn the little docklet on, it shows up in the top left
| corner of my desktop, outside of the toolbar, and the status dock
| remains empty.
| 
| Is this a configuration problem on my end?

Nope.

| Or does this happen to others as well?

Yep.

| If it's a bug, what's the best thing to do?  Report it in Debian's
| bug system, or over in Gabber's?

It's a known problem (race condition) with the GNOME docklet protocol.
I don't think it is fixed in GNOME 2.  You can try (re)selecting that
option a few times, and hopefully one of them the docklet will be
properly swallowed by the status dock.
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62652
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62497

-D

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