Weird GNOME behaviour (in Dapper and Edgy)

[John Dangler]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 12:12 +0100, Severin Schoepke wrote:

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> >     But I have a weird problem with both installations: Sometimes Gnome
> >     doesn't allow the creation of new windows: When I'm working and
> >     want to
> >     start a new app or open a folder, it happens from time to time
> >     that the
> >     app/folder is not started/opened. There's a new entry in the task
> >     bar in
> >     the likes of 'Mozilla Firefox wird gestartet...' (FF is being
> >     started in
> >     english) that just disappears after a few seconds. I then can't start
> >     applications, be it via the start menu, a panel launcher, a starter on
> >     the desktop or from a terminal that is already open... Then suddenly,
> >     after 10 minutes or so, the apps finally start/the windows get
> >     opened...
It's not your imagination.  I get it on my Dell 8600 laptop sometimes in
Dapper, too.  Try opening a terminal, and typing the command line
equivalent of what you want to start (i.e.
- /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox/firefox) Don't quote me on that location...
If there's any problem with the application starting up, it will throw
the errors to stdout since the process was started in foreground on the
terminal.
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