Bug 12482

Summary:	Only "cashew" allows access to panel settings. Other methods instantly close.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Fortin <pf>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	balcaen.john, lmenut, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	konsole output

Description Pierre Fortin 2014-01-30 21:46:02 CET

Description of problem:  [this report is long overdue -- been using the cashew workaround]

Trying to access Panel Settings (panel on bottom):

- right-click on "cashew": this always works.  Mouse can even be moved anywhere along the panel and the Panel Settings remain visible; moving the mouse into the Panel Settings, then out, will auto-close the Panel Settings.

- right-click on a widget or desktop, ->Panel Options->Panel Settings: Panel Settings appears momentarily and instantly closes.

- right-click on a widget or desktop, ->Add Widgets: Panel Settings appears momentarily and instantly closes.



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How reproducible: always


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David Walser 2014-01-31 21:18:23 CET

CC: (none) => balcaen.john, lmenut, mageia

Comment 1 Nicolas Lécureuil 2014-01-31 22:00:11 CET

can you open konsole, do:

kquitapp plasma-desktop and then restart plasma-desktop in it.

Redo your tasks and see if you see "debugs" because here i can't reproduce.

Comment 2 Pierre Fortin 2014-02-01 03:04:04 CET

Only "kquitapp plasma-desktop" was needed...   This seems to have solved this problem which has plagued me for a long time.  Will know for sure at next reboot...

[Aside: I have 8 desktops. A strange artifact of performing this plasma-desktop restart is that most of my konsoles (one on each desktop), an xpdf, and all but one of my firefox windows got shrunk horizontally to 1" to 2" wide...  claws-mail, KVIrc, mcc, gkrellm, oocalc & oowriter were not so affected...  Weird!]

OK...  maybe you can see the issue this way since this still results in the initial report (though not as prevalent):
 - right-click on panel
 - ->Panel Options...
 - place the tip of the mouse pointer at the top of the blue bar over Panel Settings and click...

Comment 3 Pierre Fortin 2014-02-01 03:11:22 CET

BTW Nicolas, trying to access Panel Settings from the second Panel I created at the top of the screen just seems to ignore the request; or the settings appear/disappear so fast as not to be seen at all...

Comment 4 Pierre Fortin 2014-02-01 03:37:06 CET

Created attachment 4912 [details]
konsole output

With a minor correction to comment 2 (inside this attachment), this is konsole output -- hope this is "debug" you were looking for...

Comment 5 Pierre Fortin 2015-07-25 15:35:48 CEST

Closing this as working in mga5

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME