Can't run unity mail settings

[David Shepherd]

When I left click unity mail icon on my sidebar in ubuntu 16.04 I have an option to "Mark as read" , "Compose mail" etc..... but when I click on settings nothing opens up. I was using inbox instead of gmail but now want to go back to gmail and can't the relative links. Any ideas? Tried uninstall and re-install but nothings clearing my previous settings.

[Robert Tari (robert-tari)]

Thanks for reporting this. You can try the following:

1. Make sure you have the latest UM (currently 18.12.5)
2. Run killall unity-mail from the terminal
3. Run unity-mail-reset from the terminal
4. Restart UM with ALT+F2 unity-mail

Please, also report back here.

[David Shepherd (tophitter225-p)]

Follow your steps and Unity Mail won't run at all. Si ran it in a terminal and the output is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unity-mail", line 22, in <module>
    UnityMail(len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == 'debug')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/application.py", line 477, in __init__
    self.initKeyring()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/application.py", line 686, in initKeyring
    self.openDialog()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/application.py", line 751, in openDialog
    self.dlgSettings = PreferencesDialog()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/dialog.py", line 164, in __init__
    self.oNotebook.append_page(self.pageAccounts(), Gtk.Label(_('Accounts')))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/dialog.py", line 330, in pageAccounts
    oMonitor = oDisplay.get_primary_monitor()
AttributeError: 'X11Display' object has no attribute 'get_primary_monitor'

[Robert Tari (robert-tari)]

OK, found the root of the issue:

16.04 is still using an old version of the gir1.2-gtk-3.0 package, whereas the get_primary_monitor function is only available in 3.22 and newer. I'm changing the code to make it check if it can use it.

[Robert Tari (robert-tari)]

Could you please check it again with 18.12.13, and report back?

[David Shepherd (tophitter225-p)]

updated to 18.12.13.134 and ran unity-mail and nothing still not starting. Did your recommended previous steps and again nothing. Running it from a terminal generates:

Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unity-mail", line 22, in <module>
    UnityMail(len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == 'debug')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/application.py", line 477, in __init__
    self.initKeyring()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/application.py", line 686, in initKeyring
    self.openDialog()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/application.py", line 757, in openDialog
    self.dlgSettings.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/dialog.py", line 465, in run
    self.updateEntries()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unitymail/dialog.py", line 554, in updateEntries
    self.oEntryInboxAppend.set_text(self.lstDicts[nIndex]['InboxAppend'])
KeyError: 'InboxAppend'

[Robert Tari (robert-tari)]

You have discovered another bug. Launchpad has just finished building 18.12.13.135, I think it should be fine. I am sorry to keep asking for feedback, I have no access to a 16.04.

[David Shepherd (tophitter225-p)]

It's no problem I'll do what I have to, to get it sorted.

[David Shepherd (tophitter225-p)]

All is good now. Working fine thank you for the help much appreciated!

[David Shepherd (tophitter225-p)]

I've had another issue with this unfortunately waking from suspend unity-mail won't open for me when clicking on the icon from my unity launcher.