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gnome-applets package

System Monitor applet provides invalid information when moving a mouse pointer to its charts on GNOME Panel

Bug #501188 reported by Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek on 2009-12-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #102921: Moving the mouse cursor over the gnome-system-monitor temporarily causes network and disk usage to become zero. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-applets (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

System Monitor applet provides invalid information when moving a mouse pointer to its charts on GNOME Panel.

Steps to reproduce:
1) add System Monitor applet to one of GNOME panels and set network chart to be shown
2) start to download sth from internet, taking care of nearly constant rate (like about 100 KB/s all the time)
3) move mouse over the network chart

Result: download information drastically decrease although transfer rate doesn't change

Expected result: download information is not affected by moving a mouse pointer

I attached a screenshot showing this issue - all drops in the middle chart come from moving mouse over this chart, not from actual download rate drop.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 28 19:54:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote on 2009-12-29:

#1

Network information drastically decreases only because of moving a mouse pointer Edit (707 bytes, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GConfNonDefault.txt Edit (789 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (354 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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jimmy the saint (lowid95) wrote on 2010-01-15:

#2

I came to post the same bug. It seems that while producing the little info bubble popup that displays the network speed, the applet is incapable of also tracking the actual network traffic! I noticed it first on an AMD64 system, but now I am using 32bit and the behavior is the same.

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote on 2010-01-19:

#3

Monitoring disk usage by system monitor applet shares the same problem.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-01-19:

#4

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find.

affects:	gnome-panel (Ubuntu) → gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-applets (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote on 2010-01-19:

#5

If it's been reported then I guess You should mark it as a duplicate instead of making it invalid... How can I find the original report?

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-01-19:

#6

We don't always have the time available to search for the original report when we see a bug that we know has already been reported. You're more than welcome to search for the already existing report though and add the link yourself

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-01-19:

#7

Don't worry about it, I did it for you

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