Inkscape misconfigures after install on Ubuntu 9.04

[angeleum]

Inkscape icons are close to 600-800% of system icons in menus and on tool bar. System icons are correctly sized in menus and top bar. Application window runs off bottom of screen. Clicking on menu items or tools has no result, except for system call of quit application (perhaps others too). Otherwise, Inkscape does not function. Removing, quiting Ubuntu, booting fresh after a few minutes, and re-installing has no effect. All includes and recommends are present and latest versions. So far as I can tell, all paths are fine.

This is the only application displaying faults on system at this time so far as I know. I check all apps after install to insure function.

Screen shots available if BugTrack does not present opportunity to attach them. System info dump follows:

Inkscape version: 0.46-5ubuntu4

Note: Deleted network and other hardware info as inappropriate.

COMPUTER MAKE
 Dell Dimension 4500

System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 6/16/2009 6:54:56 PM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo

SYSTEM INFORMATION
 Running Ubuntu Linux, the 5.0 release. (Ubuntu 9.4, Jaunty Jackalope)
 GNOME: 2.26.1 (Ubuntu 2009-05-06)
 Kernel version: 2.6.28-11-generic (#42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009)
 GCC: 4.3.3 (i486-linux-gnu)
 Xorg: unknown (09 April 2009 02:10:02AM)
  Queried my system via Synaptics to fill in the Xorg blanks:
  Xorg: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18 (jaunty)
  xserver-xorg-core: 2:1.6.0ubuntu14 (jaunty)

DESKTOP WINDOW MANAGER VERSION & SETTINGS
 Compiz-Fusion: 1:0.8.2ubuntu8
 Window Decorator: Compiz-gnome 1:08.2-ubuntu8 (Metacity 1:2.25.144-0ubuntu)
 Visual Effects: Custom
 Known unresolved issue: During shutdown on this machine, system flashes a fast warning that screen is not composited, though compiz is confirmed running and in Custom Effects mode. Cause unknown.

CPU INFORMATION
 GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
 Number of CPUs: 1
 CPU clock currently at 1994.285 MHz with 512 KB cache
 Numbering: family(15) model(2) stepping(4)
 Bogomips: 3988.57
 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts

MEMORY INFORMATION
 Total memory: 1001 MB
 Total swap: 2863 MB

GRAPHIC CARD
 VGA controller
  nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
 Model name: GeForce FX 5500
 Card Type: AGP 4x
 Video RAM: 256 MB
 GPU Frequency: 270 MHz
 Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.16 Sat Jan 24 19:42:59 PST 2009

[angeleum (angeleum)]

Ok, here's the screen-shots I promised. Sorry about the typo above on Ubuntu version number... 9.04 of course. :->

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

I can't reproduce it on Ubuntu 9.04, but my system is far more basic than yours (no compiz and visual effects, only a lightweight clearlooks theme...).
It seems to affect Inkscape specific icons only.
Could you try with an original Ubuntu desktop?

[angeleum (angeleum)]

Hi Jazzy,

Interesting thought. Just tried it to no effect... Metacity solo, no
effects at all, and non-compositing... even quit AWN. I realise quiting,
and letting the machine wait before rebooting is probably Windows centric,
but I get paranoid tracing a problem in situations like this... anyway, did
that also (quit-reboot) to no effect.

Thought of something else and checked memory consumption. Under compiz,
gkrellm reports about 420M
free (can be seen in my screenshot to the left at the bottom of gkrellm
gadget. Under Metacity I had about 700M of memory free. Not starved
evidently. Hardware is at the limits of addressible RAM for this box
anyway.

The known issue that I reported with compiz is partly resolved now (AWN is
making the report that screen is not composited at shutdown). Probably an
unrelated problem.

I tested Inkscape further: some tools work (square fill for one and 3D
square for another), but most do not. Rather hard to tell how many broke
without full access to screen. Of the recommends, I tested Skencil and
found it would not even launch... Synaptics reports a version conflict. I
missed that one when I said recommends and includes all work. Sorry. Dia,
etc. certainly work.

Gary Greene <email address hidden>
San Jose, California

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM, JazzyNico <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can't reproduce it on Ubuntu 9.04, but my system is far more basic than
> yours (no compiz and visual effects, only a lightweight clearlooks
> theme...).
> It seems to affect Inkscape specific icons only.
> Could you try with an original Ubuntu desktop?
>
> --
> Inkscape misconfigures after install on Ubuntu 9.04
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388335
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Jon A. Cruz (jon-joncruz)]

The ones that are "normal" size are the bitmaps loaded by the system. The large ones are the internally rendered vector ones. There is a very high chance that you have a gtk theme that is mis-reporting icon sizes through gtk_icon_size_lookup().

[angeleum (angeleum)]

Hi Jon,

You get the prize! :-> I switched to Jazzy's Clearlooks and everything is
spot-on. The faulty theme is Glossy-P, a Mac look-alike that I've used for
years. Not only does the screen display properly, but buttons that did not
function now do. Many, many Thanks to you. I'll test further (including
uninstalling and re-installing Glossy-P) and report back. At worse, I'll
need to switch themes when I want to use Inkscape.

Gary Greene <email address hidden>
San Jose, California

[angeleum (angeleum)]

Ok, tested further and while this may not be definitive it looks close.
This bug was caused by a corrupt icon theme, not the Glossy-P window theme.
Changing to Clearlooks changed the icon theme of course. I was tired and
jumped to a false conclusion. Running Glossy-P with any other icon theme
worked just as well as Clearlooks. Running with my installed icon theme and
any other Window theme replicated the problem. Deleting that icon theme and
reinstalling from a fresh source seems to be the solution. Problem gone. I
consisder this "bug" closed.

My thanks to Jon and Jazzy

Gary Greene <email address hidden>
San Jose, California

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Happy it now works for you!