Checkgmail doesn't work with Compiz

[Diego Gaustein]

Binary package hint: checkgmail

Using Compiz (desktop-effects) on Feisty Beta, the popup (when you mouse-over the checkgmail icon) doesn't respond to clicks (Open, Archive, Etc.)

[UCAP (ucap)]

I can confirm this.

[UCAP (ucap)]

Follow up: Just came across this on Checkgmail's website http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/:

CheckGmail and XGL/Compiz
Not being able to use the action links for each mail message is a known issue with XGL/Compiz/Beryl/etc. The problem stems from the popup window losing focus when the eventbox is clicked, causing the popup to close before the action is carried out. There may be a fix up soon, although I don't actually have a system which can run XGL and as such it's hard to debug.

[UCAP (ucap)]

The upstream developer solved the problem in <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/checkgmail/checkgmail-1.11.1pre3.tar.bz2?modtime=1178536745&big_mirror=0>checkgmail_1.11.1pre3</a>.

If you can't wait for this release to hit the Ubuntu repositories, here's a quick and dirty workaround: Download the above file and move the file "checkgmail" in the archive to /usr/bin/ on your system.

[Diego Gaustein (gregorovius)]

Thanks for the followup. Is this fix going to be in Feisty (at least in
backports) or only on Gutsy? Cheers.

[UCAP (ucap)]

CheckGmail 1.12-1 (which is compatible with Compiz/Compiz-Fusion) will be in Gutsy.

[Bortnyák Roland (antivirtel)]

Info:
CheckGmail 1.13+svn43-1ubuntu1
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
kernel: 2.6.32-23-generic-pae
Avant-Window-Navigator: 0.4.0-0ubuntu1
Compiz: 0.8.4-0ubuntu15

Problem is simple, when I click to e-mail Subject, the mail's content is opened, but it there is any link, I click on it, then it doesent opens in some browser... the other way: right-click, when I click right click, the mail, and the checkgmail bouble disappears, only the local menu is displayed: "Copy Link", "Open in the browser"... these two links aren't works...

Thanks the support!

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Roland
Did you run checkgmail -update?
Cheers

[Bortnyák Roland (antivirtel)]

Yeah, I tried, but the bug also "lives".
(CheckGmail v1.14pre-svn)

[Bortnyák Roland (antivirtel)]

"Open link" and clicking to link is opens the links. "Copy adress" still not, I've ran the "checkgmail -update", and I have: v1.14pre-svn.
Kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic-pae
Compiz: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15
Release: 10.04
Avant-Window-Navigator: 0.4.0-0ubuntu1

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Strange according to the website

CheckGmail and XGL/Compiz
Checkgmail should now work perfectly with Compiz/Beryl/et al. If it doesn't, please try the latest version from SVN, and if that doesn't work, report it as a bug! :)

It should be working,

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in Gutsy. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the package doesn't fit the requirements for backporting. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports for more information.