I've run some tests to see if it's just my main account thats screwed up. What I did is: * Created a new user id, logged out, logged in as the new user. * When the first-time wizard appeared, chose Evolution as the mail client and defined one pop3/smtp mail account. * Started Evolution from the K -> Networking -> Mail menu * It crashed, and gave me an option to report this to bugzilla at gnome, but their bugzilla page says to report it to Ximian. * Started Evolution again, and it worked. (By the way, the first time I started it on my "real" userid it crashed too, and it worked the second time.) * Went to Inbox. * Opened a new window. * Watched the cursor blink for 80 seconds, and decided it wasn't going to misbehave unless I type something. * Typed the letter "a", and watched the cursor. It blinked vor about 20 seconds, then stopped for 5 seconds, then started blinking again. waited for 60 seconds, and the cursor stopped blinking for 5 seconds. * disabled the only mail account. Turned off spell checking and "check as I type". * quit evolution, started it back up again. * created a new message, typed "a", and waited. sure enough, within one minute the cursor stopped blinking for 5 seconds, then started again, blinked for 60 seconds, stopped for 5, etc.
To reiterate, the reason I'm complaining isn't the non-blinking cursor, but the fact that the characters I type stop appearing during this 5-second pause, which is really rather annoying and breaks my train of thought and affects productivity. - Jesse, using Mandrake 9.2 and Evolution 1.4.4 ___________________ On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 17:01, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > it doesn't happen for me, nor should it cause a temp hang. is your hard > drive exceedingly slow? is your home dir mounted over a slow NFS link? > > it might not even be the autosave (I can't imagine autosave even being > noticable). > > have you tried uninstalling gnome-spell? does that make a difference? > > (actually, I have gnome-spell too but it doesn't cause any hangs for > me... but it's another possibility?) > > Jeff > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 19:41, J Black wrote: > > Thank you, Guenther, for the reply. It is somewhat reassuring that I am > > not the only one experiencing it. > > > > If others can confirm that this behavior is to be expected, please let > > me know and I will switch to another mail client. I can't imagine > > telling anyone to switch from Outlook on Windows to Evolution on Linux > > and, oh, by the way, you will have to stop typing for 5 seconds every > > minute! > > > > As I said in my original post (perhaps that has gotten lost), this was > > not a problem in the Evolution that came with Mandrake 9.1, so if anyone > > has a solution, please let me know (other than re-installing the old > > Mandrake)! I am also open to any work-around, and if someone thinks it > > is just my installation that is broken and knows how to fix it, that > > would be welcome information too! > > > > - J Black > > ________________ > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 13:00, guenther wrote: > > > > Whenever I'm editing a message and typing away, the compose window > > > > freezes for about 5 seconds every 60 seconds. The cursor stops > > > > blinking, and whatever I type doesn't appear until the 5 seconds is up. > > > > (It's done it twice just typing these sentences!) Even typing a single > > > > character into the message window is enough to trigger this behavior. > > > > > > Just a guess: The Composer is saving copies of the mails. It might be > > > this. You will love this feature, when Evolution crashes the first time > > > while you are writing a large mail. (Well, haven't had that happen > > > often, though. :) > > > > > > FWIW: I do see this sometimes, too. > > > > > > ...guenther > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
