Start up and other issues in Liferea

[Vanamali]

I'm facing two issues with Liferea:
1. Clicking the icon once in the launcher doesn't launch liferea. The cursor shows the busy animation for a while and stops. I've to click the icon again to launch the program. Same with command line. Typing 'liferea' doesn't open liferea. The icon on the launcher has to be clicked again.
2. By default the height of the feed display area of any subscription is nearly zero. I've to click and drag the the border to get any useful height every time liferea is opened.

Both the problems are experienced when liferea is used for the first time after booting the laptop. Subsequent instances work normally.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: liferea 1.10.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-45.74-generic 3.13.11-ckt13
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Feb 19 09:29:03 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-17 (93 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: liferea
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

On 19-02-15 05:12, Vanamali wrote:
> I'm facing two issues with Liferea:

Just for the record, it is preferred to have TWO bug reports then,
instead of one. This makes keeping track more difficult.

> 1. Clicking the icon once in the launcher doesn't launch liferea. The cursor shows the busy animation for a while and stops. I've to click the icon again to launch the program. Same with command line. Typing 'liferea' doesn't open liferea. The icon on the launcher has to be clicked again.

Can you please confirm that liferea is running after the first time (by
e.g. running the following command in a terminal:
$ ps aux | grep liferea
On my system, by default liferea starts up in the system tray but
doesn't open. I believe (but haven't verified) that this is because most
people will run liferea in their startup and would thus always have
liferea in their face.

> 2. By default the height of the feed display area of any subscription is nearly zero. I've to click and drag the the border to get any useful height every time liferea is opened.

What Desktop Environment are you running? KDE by any chance? I think
this is a duplicate of a known issue that seems to depend on the DE
and/or the theme, so providing that information would help.

Paul

[Vanamali (vanamalishastry)]

Hi,

Apologies for two complaints in one post. Shall I remove the second point from the bug report?

1. "ps aux | grep liferea" gives the following output:

@Enigma:~$ ps aux | grep liferea
vanamali 3511 0.9 0.5 865652 41272 ? Sl 15:04 0:00 liferea
vanamali 3542 0.0 0.0 16200 928 pts/11 S+ 15:04 0:00 grep --color=auto liferea

I've added liferea to the startup as well. But the problem was present even before that.

2. I run Ubuntu/Unity
Following outputs might help:

vanamali@Enigma:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
ubuntu
vanamali@Enigma:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Unity
vanamali@Enigma:~$ echo $GDMSESSION
ubuntu

Thanks

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

On 19-02-15 10:42, Vanamali wrote:
> Apologies for two complaints in one post. Shall I remove the second
> point from the bug report?

Let's decide once we established the bugs.

> 1. "ps aux | grep liferea" gives the following output:
>
> @Enigma:~$ ps aux | grep liferea
> vanamali 3511 0.9 0.5 865652 41272 ? Sl 15:04 0:00 liferea
> vanamali 3542 0.0 0.0 16200 928 pts/11 S+ 15:04 0:00 grep --color=auto liferea
>
> I've added liferea to the startup as well. But the problem was present
> even before that.

Is this output now after you started using startup? I.e. you experienced
that liferea was not running (at least not showing a window) but the
output proves that liferea is running (but not showing a window?

> 2. I run Ubuntu/Unity
> Following outputs might help:
>
> vanamali@Enigma:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
> ubuntu
> vanamali@Enigma:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
> Unity
> vanamali@Enigma:~$ echo $GDMSESSION
> ubuntu

Sorry, I don't have unity (I run Debian KDE myself). Does the unity
"tray" show the liferea icon? I.e. could you actually see that liferea
is running (but not showing a window)? If unity is not showing the icon,
I would say the bug you are reporting is really: "liferea icon does not
show up in Unity system tray". Is this also the case when you have the
liferea window open?

Paul

[Vanamali (vanamalishastry)]

I just checked with and without adding to startup. Both give the same result. The system tray icon is present, output of 'ps' says it is running, but the window is absent.

I took a screenshot of the window after I managed to open it and before making any changes. The feeds are hidden. I've to manually drag the border. (This corresponds to complaint #2.) The screenshot is attached.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

On 19-02-15 12:14, Vanamali wrote:
> I just checked with and without adding to startup. Both give the same
> result. The system tray icon is present, output of 'ps' says it is
> running, but the window is absent.

What is your setting in Tools -> Preferences -> GUI -> "Start in tray
icon"? (See attachment)

> I took a screenshot of the window after I managed to open it and before
> making any changes. The feeds are hidden. I've to manually drag the
> border. (This corresponds to complaint #2.) The screenshot is attached.

Agree, this is indeed exactly what I have on my system as well. I will
look up the upstream or Debian bug report number about this today.

Paul

[Vanamali (vanamalishastry)]

The settings tab screenshot is attached.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

On 20-02-15 04:54, Vanamali wrote:
> The settings tab screenshot is attached.

Could you try what happens if first set the option "Start minimized to
the messaging menu"? And then unset it? (Of course both times quiting
liferea after you change the settings.

Interestingly, I just observed on my system that the issue with the size
of the feed titles does not happen when I don't "start minimized to the
tray".

Paul

[Vanamali (vanamalishastry)]

There is no change in the behavior!

The odd behaviors are found only the first time I open liferea after booting. Hence I restarted the machine every time I made the changes you had asked. The odd behaviors persist.

[Vanamali (vanamalishastry)]

The problem still persists!

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

The issue with the window being too small is fixed in upstream verstion 1.10.16 and also tracked in Debian in bug bts#725896.