Comment 0 for bug 574822

Binary package hint: netbook-launcher

I installed a vanilla Lucid Lynx Desktop today from the day one release CD. In order to try the netbook interface as an alternative window manager I first installed just netbook-launcher, and subsequently installed ubuntu-netbook and all its dependencies.

After installing just netbook-launcher, an 'Ubuntu Netbook Edition 2D' profile appeared. Logged out and back in again and I could see the launcher at the same time as ordinary Gnome panels top and bottom. In this configuration netbook-launcher was and remains responsive, but is not properly integrated into the window manager (e.g. you can't click on the Ubuntu icon to launch it, windows are shown in the conventional gnome panels).

After subsequently installing ubuntu-netbook and all its dependencies, an 'Ubuntu Netbook Edition' profile appeared as well (doesn't say 2D). Launching this gives me a full ubuntu-netbook experience with the window-picker applet at the top, but the netbook-launcher is so slow as to be unusable. This is at the same time that the Scale plugin in Compiz runs smoothly and at full speed (e.g. the desktop is running full 3D acceleration perfectly well). Clicking on any category in netbook-launcher takes anything up to 10-20 seconds to slowly animate a refresh, making it unusable as a navigation tool.

I tried purging all netbook packages and reinstalling just ubuntu-netbook, but I seem to be stuck with these two alternatives - just netbook-launcher at full speed as a background in an ordinary gnome session, (Ubuntu Netbook 2D) or full fledged netbook features, (Ubuntu Netbook) with an impossibly slow rendering behaviour from netbook-launcher.

I'd like to build a working netbook edition for my girlfriend and was planning to run Ubuntu Desktop in full, but with Netbook Edition as an alternative login option so she has both options. Is this possible? What's the rendering bug and is there a workaround?

Is it possible that I ended up with some corrupted config from my first attempt (just installing netbook-launcher) which needs to be cleared out.

I submitted this bug from the non-2D Ubuntu Netbook Edition session, so it should report the correct information for the buggy scenario.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: netbook-launcher 1:2.1.17-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 3 23:21:08 2010
DkmsStatus: bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.32-21-generic, i686: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=a5d3c680-150c-4973-ba86-1a85a455337b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: netbook-launcher
dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A16
dmi.board.name: 0U990C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA16:bd10/16/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1525:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U990C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1525
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic