f-spot slide show can't be stopped if left on too long

Bug #301184 reported by Rising Eagle
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
f-spot (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: f-spot

Similar but not the same as #292721. I'm running 64 bit ibex on my gateway laptop. Slideshow runs fine and ends fine if I esc out in 2 or 3 minutes. If I leave it on for a while (so sue me, I like to look at my girlfriend), esc and all other means of ending it fail. As it takes over the computer, I can't stop it. Not really knowing what it would do, I ctl-alt-backsp and it sent me back to the login screen which caused me to lose all my open work. My guess is that slideshow interferes with screensaver or powersaver.

Update:
Per chance, I recreated the problem and know what I did. Turns out that during the slideshow, there is no way to stop it with the mouse or any of the mouse buttons. The only way is with the esc button on the keyboard. Fiddling with the mouse and its buttons for a few minutes caused the slideshow to lock out the keyboard commands. The only way to stop it was with ctl-alt-backsp. So now we know, we need a way to esc out of the slideshow with the mouse. In my opinion, the way Totem Movie Player accomplishes this feature is a good approach to implement in f-spot.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

thanks for the report, stopping the slideshow works fine here, does disabling the screensaver at all fixes the issue? which video driver and card do you have?

Changed in f-spot:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in f-spot:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Rising Eagle (borntobesteve) wrote :

This bug can now be reproduced and it is about poor mouse and mouse/button handling during the slideshow.

description: updated
description: updated
Changed in f-spot:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Rising Eagle (borntobesteve) wrote : Re: [Bug 301184] Re: f-spot slide show can't be stopped if left on too long

 Pedro,

I reopened this bug report as I stumbled onto new information that will allow you to implement a fix. Please take another look at the bug report. Thx.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:32 am
Subject: [Bug 301184] Re: f-spot slide show can't be stopped if left on too long

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report
you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change
the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

** Changed in: f-spot (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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f-spot slide show can't be stopped if left on too long
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Status in “f-spot” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: f-spot

Similar but not the same as #292721. I'm running 64 bit ibex on my gateway
laptop. Slideshow runs fine and ends fine if I esc out in 2 or 3 minutes. If I
leave it on for a while (so sue me, I like to look at my girlfriend), esc and
all other means of ending it fail. As it takes over the computer, I can't
stop
it. Not really knowing what it would do, I ctl-alt-backsp and it sent me back to
the login screen which caused me to lose all my open work. My guess is that
slideshow interferes with screensaver or powersaver.

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