Re: [Evolution] Recipient pop-up selection window forced x-server kill

["Norman P. B. Joseph" <joseph ctcgsc org>]

I'm definitely seeing this, and it has been reported since July:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45931

It's a showstopper bug, because, as you found out, the only way to get
your desktop back is to kill evolution (I Ctl-Alt-F1 to a console and
run "evolution --force-shutdown", no need to kill your whole X session,
at least for me).  Given that, and the fact that other people besides me
are experiencing this bug, I've yet to see any Ximian response via
Bugzilla.

The workaround for me has been to bring up the address book window via
the "To:" or "Cc:" button, but now I'm pointing and clicking with the
mouse rather than typing with the keyboard, and I can only get it to
search one contacts database at a time.  Pain.

Hey Ximian, how can I get someone interested in this bug?

-norm



On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:06, J. Lee Dixon wrote:
> Here's a strange bug, though it may really just be a GNOME problem.
>
> I was writing an email in evolution, and was typing in the recipient's
> name in the To: field, which as expected brings up a pop-up window with
> matching recipients.
>
> While this pop-up window was up, I got a gaim message window from
> someone wanting to chat.  Well, the pop-up recipient window kept my
> mouse focus and would not give it up.  It would let me highlight an item
> on the list, but would not do anything with it.  The pop-up window list
> just stayed there.  Clicking outside the pop-up didn't help, nor did
> pressing escape (or anything else for that matter).
>
> Eventually I was forced to ctrl-shift-backspace to kill my Xserver. 
> There was no other way out.
>
> Anybody else seen this?  Is this an evolution bug or a gnome bug or a
> gaim bug?  :)
>
> -Lee
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