Re: Gnome-panel freezes

[Gary Shears <gshears home com>]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, you wrote:
 > should i do? Have anyone the same problem?  Pär.
> 
> I've had vaguely similar problems in the past. Have you added any applets 
> to the panel? I found that starting gnome-weather when my network 
> connection was flaky would hang things wonderfully until gnome-weather 
> either  established its connection to where it gets its data or gave up
> trying. There may be other applets which do the same kind of thing.
> to diagnose this. (I don't use Helix and haven't met this: I just
> met gweather being silly. (One of the funkier effects of that was
> that I clicked madly on it, tried to remove it, move it and so on,
> and none of the mouse clicks had any effect. Then suddenly they all
> took effect about five minutes later and the applet whizzed madly
> around the panel (my attempts to move it) and kept flicking its
> menu up and down (my attempts to remove it). It was actually rather
> funny once I realised what was happening.)


I have the same problem with gweather, but with no other applets I've tried. I
posted a bug report, but haven't checked on it since. I just quit using
gweather, since it was too annoying.

Gary