This confused me too occasionally. There's a warning when starting in the project directory, now.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619380 Title: onboard 1.3.0 Preferences dialog won't open Status in Onboard: Invalid Status in onboard package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: onboard 1.3.0-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Beta. 1. Make sure onboard is not running. 2. Open a terminal, then run onboard 3. Click the menu button, then click the Preferences button. 4. The Preferences dialog does not open. This is printed in the terminal: $ onboard (onboard:1301): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/jeremy/devel/temp/onboard/onboard-1.3.0/Onboard/settings.py", line 43, in <module> from Onboard.LayoutLoaderSVG import LayoutLoaderSVG File "/home/jeremy/devel/temp/onboard/onboard-1.3.0/Onboard/LayoutLoaderSVG.py", line 46, in <module> from Onboard.WordSuggestions import WordListPanel File "/home/jeremy/devel/temp/onboard/onboard-1.3.0/Onboard/WordSuggestions.py", line 35, in <module> import Onboard.pypredict as pypredict File "/home/jeremy/devel/temp/onboard/onboard-1.3.0/Onboard/pypredict/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> from pypredict.lm_wrapper import * File "/home/jeremy/devel/temp/onboard/onboard-1.3.0/Onboard/pypredict/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> from pypredict.lm_wrapper import * File "/home/jeremy/devel/temp/onboard/onboard-1.3.0/Onboard/pypredict/lm_wrapper.py", line 28, in <module> from pypredict.lm import overlay, linint, loglinint # exported symbols ImportError: cannot import name 'overlay' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1619380/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp