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
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