On Thursday 18 September 2008 03:18:19 P Purkayastha wrote:
> I have observed ghost windows with acroread print dialog even if I don't
> have itask-ng enabled.

I also see the same thing, with and without itask-ng.

But in my case the most common ghost window is e17's own top-level 
configuration dialog

alan



>
> mik firestone wrote:
> > I have always seen this in association with itask-ng.  If I stop using
> > itask, I don't have ghost windows.  I have seen this for several months
> > now, at least two revisions of itask-ng.
> >
> > Another incredibly reliable way to generate them is to use thunderbird
> > and compose email.  It always seems to create a ghost.  Firefox save
> > dialogs usually work too.  Based on the other applications I run, I think
> > it is somehow related to transient windows but I have no proof.
> >
> > Restarting almost always crashes e as well, which would lead me to think
> > we have a pointer not getting cleared correctly.  I have followed the
> > usual steps of compiling with debug and attaching gdb after the crash,
> > but it never seemed to indicate any real problem.  Another really good
> > indication that a pointer isn't pointing where it should be.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Wido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> i'm using itask-ng, but as far as i remember, this also happen without
> >> it. i'm at work now, i'll try this at home
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:28 PM, P Purkayastha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Wido wrote:
> >>>> hi folks. i've recently updated E from svn and E it's not closing
> >>>> windows properly. I't happens that when i click de close butto, the
> >>>> app stop running, but the windows remains there ass a dead one. Also,
> >>>> it happens that when i restart e to shut them out, sometimes e doesn't
> >>>> restart in a proper way and i have to restart X (losing all the open
> >>>> apps :( ). is this a known bug?
> >>>> BTW, running debian  lenny with a fresh install
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers!
> >>>
> >>> Seems to be a bug. A reproducible situation is when you use acroread.
> >>> If
> >>
> >> you
> >>
> >>> happen to print the pdf file, then the print dialog never closes,- it
> >>> becomes a ghost window which vanishes only after an e restart.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if the following is also related:
> >>> http://code.google.com/p/itask-module/issues/detail?id=43
> >>
> >> --
> >> Wido
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