GnuCash Accounts don't redraw with overlay scrollbar

[Ted Gould]

Binary package hint: overlay-scrollbar

The GNU Cash registers are entirely unusable, they don't redraw at all with the overlay scrollbar installed. Removing the package fixes it.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Ciao ted,
what do you mean with "redraw"? I am trying to figure out what's wrong, I have installed gnucash, could you guide me?

[David Barth (dbarth)]

@Cimi: if confirmed, you should blacklist the program first, and then try to find a fix for it.

As a workaround, one can always start a program with this environment variable:

  LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 <program>

to locally disable the use of the new scrollbars

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

I've spoken yesterday with ted, I decided I'll blacklist gnucash now, then I will try to reproduce the bug in Budapest with him, as here is working fine...

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

update to 0.1.10 for an SRU

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted overlay-scrollbar into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Zach Sadecki (zsadecki)]

I ran into this problem after my upgrade to Natty. Launching gnucash with the LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 workaround worked for me. Then I enabled the proposed repo, and installed only the overlay-scrollbar package version 0.1.12-0ubuntu1. Now if I launch gnucash without the env var workaround the problem still occurs. So I do not believe that this is fixed...

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Excerpts from Zach Sadecki's message of Sat Apr 30 15:53:45 UTC 2011:
> I ran into this problem after my upgrade to Natty. Launching gnucash
> with the LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 workaround worked for me. Then I
> enabled the proposed repo, and installed only the overlay-scrollbar
> package version 0.1.12-0ubuntu1. Now if I launch gnucash without the
> env var workaround the problem still occurs. So I do not believe that
> this is fixed...

Zach, did you reboot after the update? Its possible you were still using
the old configuration/library.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

or he's using a simlink

[David Ziegler (david-ziegler)]

Same report as Zach: I also ran into this after the Natty upgrade. The LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 workaround works for me as well. I've also installed the 0.1.12 package from proposed, and the problem remains without the environment variable.

Additional information: This is true across a reboot, and when launching /usr/bin/gnucash directly from a terminal.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

I have no idea... here is blacklisted. Anyone having the app blacklisted apart me?

[Steven Walter (stevenrwalter)]

I'm seeing the same behavior. Without LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0, gnucash doesn't render correctly. Installing overlay-scrollbar/natty-proposed does not fix it. I did reboot after installer and it still is not fixed.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Authors, this appears to not fix the actual issue for gnucash, marking verification-failed. Please investigate and upload a new package. Make sure to build your source package with -v0.1.9-0ubuntu1 to ensure that the full delta is included. Another option is to open a new bug report just for gnucash and let the package through if it does actually fix the other broken pieces.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Could you install this and tell me what's printed on the terminal (something like "program: gnucash, g_get_prgname (): gnucash")
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/overlay-scrollbar/+bug/769277/+attachment/2084867/+files/liboverlay-scrollbar-0.1-0_0.1.9-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

Even if this is not fixing gnucash for everybody, we shouldn't block the proposed package while working on a new fix (if it's either possible)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package overlay-scrollbar - 0.1.12-0ubuntu1

---------------
overlay-scrollbar (0.1.12-0ubuntu1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Updated blacklist:
      * -deja-dup
      * -inkscape
      * -lshw-gtk
      * +vmplayer
    - some apps show grey overlay instead orange even if the window is
      focused (LP: #771511)
    - anjuta doesn't display scrollbar after resetting the layout (LP: #771563)
  * debian/control
    - Changed maintainer to ~ubuntu-desktop

overlay-scrollbar (0.1.10-0ubuntu1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Updated blacklist:
      * vmware (LP: #770625)
      * gnucash (LP: #770304)
      * pgadmin3, codeblocks and codelite (LP: #769232)
    - liferea and cardapio requires
      GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK (LP: #769217) (LP: #769460)
    - liboverlay doesn't work in detached tabs (LP: #769427)
    - Scrollbar's slider appears away from the mouse (LP: #763707)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:23:24 -0400

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Reopening as the previous SRU didn't actually fix this.

[Zach Sadecki (zsadecki)]

Andrea: I'm running amd64, but I installed your overlay scrollbar package on a virtual machine and got this from the terminal when running gnucash:

program: gnucash, g_get_prgname (): gnucash

[Zach Sadecki (zsadecki)]

OK. This actually did fix the problem...

When I installed from proposed updates I only installed "overlay-scrollbar". When I did an update this morning the package "liboverlay-scrollbar" also got updated and now gnucash renders correctly without the env var workaround.

[Steven Walter (stevenrwalter)]

Seconded. I only installed overlay-scrollbar initially. Installing the new liboverlay-scrollbar fixes render for me as well.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Ok... that's why I was confused :)