splitting windows in yakuake doesn't work

[komputes]

Binary package hint: yakuake

yakuake 2.9.3-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Jaunty (GNOME) does not allow me to split windows horizontally or vertically. It gives me a gray area instead of a shell. The shell is there, but I can't see it - I can run command in it, but I do not see a prompt or any response, it's like an invisible shell.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Wow, that is weird. I can confirm this. I think I have seen similar issues with a KDE based terminal or konsole part in GNOME recently as well.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Attaching screenshot of Yakuake in GNOME (Jaunty)

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I am attaching an upstream bug report, that was marked invalid. The reporter stated the same problem as we are experiencing but left a final note stating it was not a Yakuake issue, but a graphics issue. I asked the reporter to provide further information on his final statement. We shall keep an eye on the upstream report to see if he replies. Hopefully we will get this figured out. Also, if you use the '+' button next to the tab on the left, and select to open a new split session, it works perfectly. Weird.

[Elias M Ward (eliasward)]

I don't know about the grayout, but you can also split your current shell by right clicking on "Shell" at the bottom and selecting your option (as opposed starting a new shell).

[Tom Helner (duffman)]

I have the same issue on KDE 4.2 RC1.
There is more information on this bug over on the KDE Bug Tracking System.
Bug 171544: Invisible terminal - Manual split terminal don'...
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171544

I am wondering if that thick ugly gray border that yakuake is displaying is related to this bug (attached screenshot).

[Jesse (sbjesse)]

I can confirm this with yakuake 2.9.3 running on intrepid.
according to the dpkg log it seems the yakuake binary hasn't upgraded in the past 5 months. but the splitting function was broken since february, this is very annoying.
is there any dependency problem?

[komputes (komputes)]

yakuake | 2.9.4-0ubuntu1 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

Problem seems to be fixed in this version.

[Jesse (sbjesse)]

@komputers I've tried installing the deb for jaunty on my intrepid box. Doesn't seem to work as expected. The new terminal split on the right is no longer gray, yet the display is still unrecognizable

[komputes (komputes)]

@Jesse - When you say you "tried installing the deb" does that mean that you downloaded a debian package and tried to install it manually (on intrepid?). I think you the issue stems from one of the dependent packages (perhaps konsole).

Yakuake has the following dependencies:
kdebase-runtime
kdelibs5
libc6
libqt4-dbus
libqtcore4
libqtgui4
libstdc++6
libx11-6
libxrender1
konsole

So my best guess on where to go from here is: 1) try it out on jaunty 2)get all these packages from jaunty 3) you can always add the jaunty repositories to your souces.list, remove and reinstall yakuake and then take those jaunty repositories out of the sources.list file as to not update any other packages. Do NOT run update manager or apt-get upgrade while the jaunty repositories are in the sources.list or else you will have one messy system. If you need any help, just ping me on freenode IRC.

[Jesse (sbjesse)]

@komputes Specifically, I downloaded the 2.9.4 deb from jaunty repository, and installed it on my intrepid system (All dependencies are satisfied)
You are right, the fix was committed to the konsole path in the svn (kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ViewContainer.cpp)
By inspecting the source (dated October 2008) it's built from, I'm sure that the fix in upstream KDE svn (r935623 in March 2009) is not in the build.
I'll see if installing the newer konsole package from jaunty helps. Thanks for reminding

[Jesse (sbjesse)]

i found that i won't be able to install konsole and other packages depended by the latest konsole in the jaunty repo. because the dependency on libqt-core is fixed on a revision. anyway, hope the fix can be backported to intrepid