Screenkey

screenkey crashes

Bug #603755 reported by Brun
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Bug Description

screenkey application crashes if you open option "options" or "about" in the system tray in KDE

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Andrew Grant (andrewgrant31) wrote :

No preferences dialog comes up and it keeps going to sleep - I have to kill the process to get it to stop.

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Brun (brun) wrote :

I also "kill" the process to quit. This bug only in KDE. = (

But in the overall program work is not bad.

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icyfeet (icyfeet) wrote :

With me the bug is also in gnome. Ubuntu 10.04

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icyfeet (icyfeet) wrote :

I forgot: I tested screenkey 0.2

Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)
Changed in screenkey:
importance: Undecided → High
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Guillaume Rene (guillaume-rene) wrote :

The same bug also appears in Fluxbox.
Linux Mint 9

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Guillaume Rene (guillaume-rene) wrote :

Quickfix is to comment out the critical sections (gtk.gdk.threads_enter() and gtk.gdk.threads_leave()) in both on_about_dialog and on_preferences_dialog methods in screenkey.py. Of course it might break things but for me at least screenkey menu is now fully functional.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pida/+bug/274747 for a similar problem and possible inspiration on how to fix it *properly*. Could be a weird race condition or still a bug in pygtk itself?

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Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk) wrote :

Thanks Guillaume for your fix.

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