[Bug 309163] Re: Open File dialog fails with inexplicable "Please select a file to open" error

[bruce]

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.

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Open File dialog fails with inexplicable "Please select a file to open" error
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