Comment 18 for bug 1485199

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Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov) wrote : Re: [Bug 1485199] Re: gschem: window redrawing problem related to right side bar

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:35:16PM -0000, Richard Rasker wrote:
> Hello Vladimir,
>
> I just noticed yet more strange behaviour related to gschem's status bar
> and sidebar problems:
>
> 1. Click on a .sch file to open it in gschem.
> [gschem opens the file with the sidebar and the status bar visible]
> 2. Choose File -> Print
> 3. Select 'Print to File', PDF format
> 4. Adjust the default name to reflect the project's name(*)
> 5. Click Print.
>
> And ... nothing happens. No PDF file appears.
>
> 6. Close either the sidebar or the status bar; or trigger the window
> redraw bug, and click/scroll in the main viewport.
> 7. The PDF file now appears after all.
Where does it appear then?

(All this behaviour is very strange and looks like some problems with
gtk+ redrawing in your environment. Perhaps, some events are lost for
some reason.)

Could you provide us with your config.log?

>
> Perhaps this gives some more clues.
>
> *: It would be nice if the 'Print to file' name reflected the .sch name
> already, instead of the generic Print name -- but OK, that's a minor
> annoyance.
Please open another bug for this.

Thanks,
  Vladimir