Diodon drop-down menu flickers and nothing can be selected
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Diodon |
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Bug Description
I'm using Vs 1.3. Ever since Vs 1.2.X, when I mouse-over the Diodon icon in the Menu Bar, the drop-down window flickers in and out real fast and the only thing that can be selected is Preferences and Quit. If I leave it alone for a while it eventually corrects itself and I can once again use it, though sometimes I still can't select a clip. Most of the time I have to forcibly kill it and re-start it to get it fully functional again.
This happens sporadically from anywhere from a fresh boot to several times within an hour.
I'm not sure if it's related, but sometimes even when it's not flickering I can't select a clip, everything except the preferences and quit are unresponsive.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
64 bit Xeon system, 8 cores, 20 Gb of memory.
Intel® X79 Express chipset
ASUS GT630-2GD3 GeForce GT 630
Thanks for this bug report. This is certainly not good - I haven't seen it myself though before.
To better analyze what the problem is would it be important to have a debug log file.
For this you can configure Diodon to automatically write its debug log to your home folder.
You have to go to Startup Applications through the Dash and change the command of the Diodon entry to the following: DEBUG=all setsid /usr/bin/diodon &>~/diodon_ debug.log"
bash -c "G_MESSAGES_
Once you have logged in and out of Unity Diodon will now start automatically and write its log file to ~/diodon_debug.log.
Keep now Diodon running till the error as you explained it occurs - when it does get a copy of the diodon_debug.log and attach it to this bug report.
Hope this will help to see what is going on. Thanks.