On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:14:26PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > If I try to 'save as' from the gimp or abiword, the dialog keeps > repainting, alternately at its original size and a bit wider. This > gives the appearance of a flashing dialog. I can close it, but I > can also drag it out wider with the mouse, at which point it settles > down. I cannot then shrink it back to the original size - it looks > as if the wider of the two alternating versions is the correct > minimum size. > I think it's sorted! I found my previous xorg-7.2 build (on pure64) and retested there - worked fine, but I noticed the dialog was different - for a file several levels down below ~/ I got a button for each directory, plus a list of files. I'd noted from strace that on x86 I had ~/,config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser : moved that to .configX, seemed to make no difference. But, I've just opened the dialog on the new system, and while I was trying to drag it out to the left it went off the screen. Grabbed the right edge, that somehow seemed to be interpreted as an action, and the dialog became deeper. Closed it (only the window buttons were still on screen), and now when I reopen it I get a fine new-style dialog.
The gimp is now giving me a good dialog too, and .config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser has been recreated so I guess it's a gtk or gnome feature. Everything else (evince, epiphany, gedit) was saving ok before this, so I can get on with a build I was beginning to think was wasted. Why does everything seem to come apart when I touch it? (no, I *don't* want an answer ;) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
