scratch stuck with a vertical bar in the middle
Bug #1467564 reported by
Reginald San
This bug affects 7 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Scratch |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After opening Scratch, I chose "New File" and this happened. There seems to be a vertical bar "|" in the top-center of what's supposed to be a blank text file.
While this is happening, the window where text should go is unresponsive. The buttons of Scratch are still working, by the way.
I have attached something of how it looks like.
affects: | elementaryos → scratch |
Changed in scratch: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in scratch: | |
milestone: | loki-beta1 → none |
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Okay I finally figured out how to reproduce this issue! The problem is that "~/.local/ share/scratch- text-editor/ unsaved" becomes owned by root. Likely this is because someone is running Scratch for the first time as root doing some kind of modification, then they come back trying to use it normally. To reproduce simply:
1. Make sure you don't have "~/.local/ share/scratch- text-editor/ unsaved" such as you wouldn't on a clean install
2. Run scratch as root. You don't need to have any unsaved files (in fact it's simpler if you don't)
3. Run scratch as a user.