I believe this project has pretty much been abandoned. I have been using Parcellite for a long time now and it is pretty much the same thing, and doesn't crash.
Jacob On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Shane Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > I really cannot give an answer. It must clash with something, but no > one has been able to figure it out. It is a real pain, because I really > like glipper. This has been a bug for years, and no answer better than > that has been presented. > > Shane > > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 00:21 +0000, chappejw wrote: > > > But why does that work? If it sleeps for 8, 30, 90 seconds and then > starts > > reliably? what was it that caused it to crash in the first place? > > > > Jacob > > > > -- > Glipper dies when desktop starting > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Glipper: Unknown > Status in “glipper” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in glipper in Ubuntu Hardy: Confirmed > Status in “glipper” package in Debian: New > Status in Fedora: Won't Fix > > Bug description: > I use glipper all the time and I find it to be the clipboard application > that has been missing from Linux desktops for the longest time. In the > recent Hardy development I find that glipper dies when the desktop starts. I > receive the following message in an error dialog window: > > The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:Glipper.... > > The is asks if I want to remove glipper from the panel. I find this very > frustrating. What is more frustrating is that once the desktop is up and > running I can then install the glipper applet back on the panel and it works > properly. I have only installed this as an applet and I have never tried > setting up a custom launcher. > > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)" > > glipper: > Installed: 1.0-1 > Candidate: 1.0-1 > Version table: > *** 1.0-1 0 > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > Traceback originally from Bug #222846: > > ProblemType: Crash > Architecture: i386 > Date: Sun Apr 27 03:59:12 2008 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 > ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/glipper/glipper > InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5 > Package: glipper 1.0-1ubuntu1 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/glipper/glipper > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33 > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > SHELL=/bin/bash > PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/glipper/glipper', > '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=33'] > SourcePackage: glipper > Title: glipper crashed with ValueError in load() > Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-386 i686 > UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev > sambashare scanner video > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/glipper/glipper", line 53, in applet_factory > glipper.Applet.Applet(applet) > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/Applet.py", line 50, in > __init__ > get_glipper_history().load() > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/History.py", line 89, in > load > self.history.append(file.read(int(length))) > ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\x14\x0b' > > > > > Proposed Workaround: > So what to do: Look up Glipper and add a wait statement: > > sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper > > Make sure the code in the beginning looks like this: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > # Glipper - Clipboardmanager for GNOME > # Copyright (C) 2007 Glipper Team > # bla bla bla > # License along with this library; if not, write to the > # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, > # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. > # > > import time # <-- This line is new > time.sleep(8) # <-- This line is new. Change the 8 to for instance 30 if it > did not help > > import gobject > gobject.threads_init() > > import gtk, gnomeapplet, gnome > import getopt, sys > from os.path import * > > > > > Proposed Solution(? needs to be verified): > Crashing in Intrepid too. It needs to be rebiult againsta libffi5 instead > of libffi4 > -- Glipper dies when desktop starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494 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
