Zenity freezes

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Bug report filed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zenity/+bug/1094924


Johnny Rosenberg


2012/12/31 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
> 2012/12/31 Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>:
>> Johnny,
>>
>> On 31/12/12 02:25, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>> In a terminal (things in <> are instructions, don't type those…):
>>> $ cat > Musicians
>>> FALSE
>>> First Name
>>> FALSE
>>> Second Name
>>> FALSE
>>> Third Name
>>> <Press Ctrl+d>
>>> $ zenity --list --title "Select musicians" --text="Some text"
>>> --column="Select" --column="Musician" --checklist --separator="\n"
>>> --height=480 --width=370 < Musicians
>>>
>>> The dialogue opens. Now hit OK or Cancel.
>>>
>>> Now, sometimes this works, but most of the time the dialogue freeze.
>>> The terminal shows the following:
>>>
>>> (zenity:3629): GLib-WARNING **:
>>> /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting
>>> flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)
>>>
>>>
>>> (zenity:3629): GLib-WARNING **:
>>> /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting
>>> flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)
>>>
>>>
>>> (zenity:3629): GLib-WARNING **:
>>> /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting
>>> flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)
>>>
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> Ctrl+c in the terminal cancels the dialogue.
>>>
>>> So, what is this? User error or Zenity error? If user error, what did
>>> I do wrong? This worked in Ubuntu 10.10, at least better than in
>>> Ubuntu 12.04. I think I remember that it freeze in Ubuntu 10.10 too,
>>> but not almost every time, like it does in Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>> I use a similar zenity command in a script I've written but I don't get
>> this error. The difference is I specify the column contents as
>> parameters to the zenity command instead of reading them from stdin.
>> Here is my command.
>>
>> competition=$(zenity --list --title="Which competition?" \
>>    --radiolist \
>>    --height=300\
>>    --column Select \
>>    --column Competition \
>>      TRUE  "Compex 1" \
>>      FALSE "Compex 2" \
>>      FALSE "Compex 3" \
>>      FALSE "Compex 4" \
>>      FALSE "Compex Final" \
>>      FALSE "Annual Exhibition" \
>>      FALSE "President's Challenge")
>>
>>
>> Don't know if this is an option for you, but it might help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tony.
>
> That works for me too, but is not an option. At least not a convenient
> one. I think it's convenient to add things to (several) different
> files rather than adding them into the script. My solution, at least
> for now, seems to be replacing Zenity with Yad. Yad seems to use
> pretty much the same syntax, so in many cases I only need to replace
> the word ”zenity” with the word ”yad”, with only minor adjustments.
> But it's good to know that this works, it could be a clue for the
> developers.
>
>
> Johnny Rosenberg