window stays gray on latest karmic

[Lars Volker]

Binary package hint: gplanarity

After start the window is just gray. There is no menu, no controls, nothing. However it does not hang. It can be exited as usual with the x in the top right corner.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 12 14:30:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gplanarity 11496-2.1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: gplanarity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

I believe this was fixed in the latest karmic (alpha 6), or at least I can play it now.

[Lars Volker (lv)]

It's still not working here. I ran aptitude update; aptitude install gplanarity; without anything changing.

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Did you try resizing the game window? I've realized that in the netbook-remix version it works fine, but in the classic ubuntu desktop it's necessary to change the window size in order to make the game appear.
No idea how to fix it though... but it would be nice to at least find a definite workaround to the problem.

[Lars Volker (lv)]

Indeed it can be "fixed" by resizing the window. Strange.

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Still the same in the Karmic beta...

[T Kortehisto (kortehisto)]

Does not work in the 32-bit release either, reinstallation doesn't help. Resizing solves the problem though.

[Edward Cherlin (echerlin)]

It took more than an hour to get to the grey box stage at level 334 after an update. (I thought it had crashed the first few times, but System Monitor showed it running flat out the whole time.) Resizing works.

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Still present in the latest Lucid build... lucky for us the resizing workaround still works.

[T Kortehisto (kortehisto)]

Still present at 10.10 beta. And the resizing workaround works..

[Sander Deryckere (sanderd17)]

Still present in 10.10. And the resizing workaround works..

Could automate resizing with xdotool. But this is a dirty trick.

[J B (scottie)]

or set it up so that a text file is displayed with instructions to resize the window.

or does gplanarity have a config file? change the default window size?

glad i got to this site... big thanks to the guy who found out and posted to resize the window.... else i would have just uninstalled the game and moved on..

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Still the same in the latest Natty...

[Monty Montgomery (xiphmont)]

I've released a new version with a proper fix. The Debian fix listed in 553500 only accidentally worked, and I do not expect it was reliable. r17906 has a correct fix to the bug (and new translations to boot).

http://web.mit.edu/~xiphmont/Public/gPlanarity.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gplanarity - 17906-1

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gplanarity (17906-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Drop fix_blank_window.patch, fixed upstream
  * debian/rules:
    - clean new po files updated during build time
    - get-orig-source: Use svn export instead of svn checkout
  * gplanarity.desktop: Value for key "Icon" should not have an extension
  * Add DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (No changes needed)

gplanarity (16723-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable
  * Switch to debhelper 8

gplanarity (16723-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/fix_blank_window.patch: Added.
    (Closes: #553500, LP: #428373)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (No changes needed)
  * Remove debian/dirs
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:50:18 +0000

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

And finally (after 3 years and 6 ubuntu releases)! gplanarity starts ok in the latest Oneiric!