Hi Marco,

Yes, you're right about the softlink. It was not necessary as Simone also
mentioned earlier in this mailing list. Glipper used to be an application
instead of an applet, that's why I thought I thought the glipper executable
should be found in the PATH initially. However, yes you can just use the
path to the executable for this workaround it should be fine. Note that if
this doesn't work and you still would like to use Glipper, you may also try
the sleep time fix that is also mentioned on this mailing list. Again these
are workarounds and some do not work for others. I have since stopped using
Glipper because whenever I have used it lately it has been eating up my CPU
to about 85% as soon as I copy anything into my clipboard. I am now trying
Klipper which is the KDE equivalent. Others have noted that Parcelite is
another similar tool which can manage your clipboard. Please let us know if
you find any other solution to this as it is an indespensable tool.

Jake


On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:55 AM, marco.pallotta <email address hidden>wrote:

> @chappejw, I tried your workaround but it doesn't run for me.
>
> - I made the soft link
> - I added glipper to System > Preferences > Sessions
> - I added the applet to my panel
> - I restarted my PC
>
> At the end I have the same issue.
> What mistakes may I have done?
>
> Moreover I have a doubt about you solution: why have I to make soft link
> if then, in system  > Preferences > Sessions, in the command field, I
> can input the absolute path of glipper (/usr/lib/glipper/glipper instead
> of /usr/bin/glipper)?
>
> --
> [Hardy] Glipper dies when desktop starting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Glipper: Unknown
> Status in "glipper" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in glipper in Ubuntu Hardy: New
>
> Bug description:
> I use glipper all the time and I find it to be the clipboard application
> that has been missing from Linux desktops for the longest time. In the
> recent Hardy development I find that glipper dies when the desktop starts. I
> receive the following message in an error dialog window:
>
> The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:Glipper....
>
> The  is asks if I want to remove glipper  from the panel. I find this very
> frustrating. What is more frustrating is that once the desktop is up and
> running I can then install the glipper applet back on the panel and it works
> properly. I have only installed this as an applet and I have never tried
> setting up a custom launcher.
>
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
>
> glipper:
>  Installed: 1.0-1
>  Candidate: 1.0-1
>  Version table:
>  *** 1.0-1 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>
> Traceback originally from Bug #222846:
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Apr 27 03:59:12 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> Package: glipper 1.0-1ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/glipper/glipper',
> '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=33']
> SourcePackage: glipper
> Title: glipper crashed with ValueError in load()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-386 i686
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev
> sambashare scanner video
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/glipper/glipper", line 53, in applet_factory
>    glipper.Applet.Applet(applet)
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/Applet.py", line 50, in
> __init__
>    get_glipper_history().load()
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/History.py", line 89, in
> load
>    self.history.append(file.read(int(length)))
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\x14\x0b'
>
>
>
>
> Proposed Workaround:
> So what to do: Look up Glipper and add a wait statement:
>
> sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
>
> Make sure the code in the beginning looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> # Glipper - Clipboardmanager for GNOME
> # Copyright (C) 2007 Glipper Team
> # bla bla bla
> # License along with this library; if not, write to the
> # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
> # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
> #
>
> import time # <-- This line is new
> time.sleep(8) # <-- This line is new. Change the 8 to for instance 30 if it
> did not help
>
> import gobject
> gobject.threads_init()
>
> import gtk, gnomeapplet, gnome
> import getopt, sys
> from os.path import *
>
>
>
>
> Proposed Solution(? needs to be verified):
> Crashing in Intrepid too. It needs to be rebiult againsta libffi5 instead
> of libffi4
>