Liferea won't start iconified anymore

[Nicolas Vandeput]

Hi,

I've seen more than one bug about the same problem but they're all closed and minimum one year old, so I think the problem re-appeared.

When I type "liferea --mainwindow-state=iconified" or "liferea --mainwindow-state=iconified" like it is described in the help, it still opens in a maximized window. Here is the terminal output:

nico@vaio ~ $ liferea --mainwindow-state=iconified
Obtaining the module object from Python failed.

Traceback (most recent call last):
cant import cStringIO
<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/time.so: undefined symbol: PyExc_ValueError

How can I fix this?

[Nicolas Vandeput (nvdp-deactivatedaccount)]

package: liferea (1.4.14-0ubuntu4) (hardy)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Works fine for me in intrepid (both iconified and hidden)

[gumbler (gumbler)]

"mainwindow-state=iconified" throw the same exceptions as you described and started maximized. But "mainwindow-state=hidden" started liferea just with a little icon (and throws the error message too).

What is the difference between iconified and hidden?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Iconified will open Liferea minimized, and hidden will not show the window at all (you have to open it through the tray icon).

I'll see tomorrow if I can reproduce it in Hardy (I can't in Intrepid).

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

I've reproduced this in Debian with 1.4.18. I guess I couldn't reproduce it in Intrepid before as I was using 1.4.20 for testing purposes.

I've forwarded it to Debian.

Thanks for your report!

[KevinM (kevbert1)]

In Jaunty kernel 2.6.28-11-generic 32 bit both mainwindow-state=hidden and mainwindow-state=iconified do not work as liferea is just launched as it would if just issuing 'liferea' in terminal. Liferea version is 1.4.26.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

I believe this was fixed ages ago, as the remote bug tracker shows.
Closing as fixed.