[launcher] The first item loses its tooltip

[pauljwells]

Binary package hint: unity

The top item in the unity side panel 'loses' its tooltip and the right-click menu.
It doesn't seem to matter what application is at the top and I have not yet found a reliable way of reproducing the problem, although it happens every session at some point.
killall unity-2d-launcher fixes it temporarily
Running on PowerPC

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Thanks for the report pauljwells. If you find a way to reliably reproduce the issue, please edit the description, that would be very useful to help us understand and fix the issue.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

I still haven't pinpointed what causes this problem (except that it always happens, sooner or later) but I have just found that once it has happened, I can drag the top icon to a different location in the launcher and the problem stays with the icon rather than staying for whatever is at the top.

Say Nautilus was top and loses the tooltip, I drag it to third place in the list so that Firefox is now top. Firefox has a tooltip but Nautilus doesn't.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Very interesting observation Paul, thanks for the feedback. When that happens to you again, could you please attach the file ~/.xsession-errors to this bug report? It may contain useful debugging information.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

Here's an xsession.errors file from just after the error appeared :-)

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Thanks a lot Paul.
Unfortunately, from a very quick glance I couldn’t find any hint in the logs about what is going wrong.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

Hi again Olivier!

Is there any way I can build a debug version of unity-2d so that I can keep a term open while I'm using it and try to catch this event?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

At the moment there is no "verbose" mode that would spit out more logs than what’s in the .xsession-errors file, unfortunately, so that wouldn’t help. You can still run the launcher from a terminal though, the debug output will go there instead of to .xsession-errors.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

Just installed unity-2d on an X64 (Intel Atom) netbook and I get exactly the same behaviour.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

NEW INFO!

I'm running unity-2d bzr635 and I just found that the third item in the panel lost its tooltip!
If it makes a difference, Nautilus loses its tooltip in position one and Thunderbird in position three.

It happens a lot less frequently than on the released builds, but still happens...

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

@pauljwells Is this still happening in latest oneiric?

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

@saviq I haven't been able to install Oneric yet - tried last night from the ppc daily alternate but it crashes. I'll keep trying

[Aurélien RIVIERE (aurelien-riv)]

Happens sometimes on Precise