ansm tray icon is just a vertical line

[ex-oficio]

When amsn runs, the main tray icon is sometimes a vertical line one pixel wide. Because of its colour, i can only see it if i make the panel bar transparent. It happens irrespective of whether the panel is transparent when amsn is started.

This happens occasionally to the main amsn icon, but the amsn mail notification icon is almost always just a thin vertical line one pixel wide. amsn or hotmail still appears if i carefully click the thin line.

at first i couldn't figure out what was wrong with my settings, but after making the panel transparent i can see the vertical line that signifies amsn icons should be there.

it is as if the icons have been "compressed" to one pixel.

This has been happening to me on jaunty, intrepid and lucid. i have not tried maverick or natty yet.

I thought this could be related to the fact that i hadn't done a fresh install since jaunty, only upgraded. however, i did a clean install (for other reasons), which is what i'm using now, and the problem is the same as ever.

i have also tried using metacity instead of the default compiz, but this has no effect on the problem.

occurrence of this bug is seemingly random, but more often than not.

lsb_release -rd:

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

i will be glad to provide any further pertinent information, or try any reasonable experiments to help solve this. no other IM application available on ubuntu provides the level of msn functionality as amsn, so an alternative application has never seemed an option.

kind regards,

ex-oficio

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: amsn 0.98.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-32.62-generic 2.6.32.38+drm33.16
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 14 19:20:20 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: amsn

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

could you please enable the natty repositories and upgrade amsn? (version 0.98.4)?

[ex-oficio (wilkinson-luke)]

hi LocutusOfBorg ,

I dont know exactly how to do this.

is there a way to do this without destroying my installation? how do i revert back if this doesnt work?

thanks,

ex-oficio

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Maybe could you upgrade your ubuntu to natty?

[ex-oficio (wilkinson-luke)]

hi I have added the aMsn daily PPA at https://launchpad.net/~amsn-daily/+archive/ppa to my software sources, which caused my amsn version to be upgraded to 0.98.4.

This has not affected the bug.

the issue may be the toolkit. I dont want to upgrade my distribution as i stick to LTS releases, so i looks like I'll just have to continue to put up with it for now.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi ex-oficio.
Could you please try the new amsn 0.98.9-1 from my ppa [1]?
this version is available for precise and quantal and it contains so many bug fixes.
If this doesn't fix the problem set the status back to new
[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/amsn

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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