I have also encountered precisely this problem with Nedit in 8.10. What is particularly vexing is that the problem manifests in different ways in different contexts. Sometimes the Open dialog does seem to work correctly, sometimes it gets caught in the "Please select a file" loop, sometimes the dialog opens blank, with no files or directories listed so one can't even get to the selection action. Always, it seems to issue some sort of cryptic Motif (?) complaint about Class:XmTextField and "Character '\...' ... not supported font." When it has worked correctly, it has been on occasions when it was launched from a panel icon and not by command line in a terminal, though it does not ALWAYS work when launched from the panel. It does always (so far) allow selection of files from the "Open previous" dialog, however. With that, I have been able to limp along.
Without a workaround that is functional consistently from from one machine boot-up to the next, from one usage context to the next, Nedit is really not very usable. Given that Nedit is an top-notch editor for people working with text files, and that it has been absolutely reliable on multiple architectures for many years in my experience, this bug in Ubuntu 8.10 is very disappointing. Please put some priority on figuring out and fixing this one. -- Open File dialog fails with inexplicable "Please select a file to open" error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309163 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
