Bug 517909

Summary: Gnome-do does not use the configured interface when auto-starting after login.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce>
Component: gnome-doAssignee: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <sindrepb>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: lordgiotto, michel, nushio, sindrepb, tross
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Description Darryl L. Pierce 2009-08-17 20:09:06 UTC
Description of problem:
When I first log into GNOME, gnome-do loads automatically as desired. However, it always uses the default interface even though I've configured it to use the mini interface. If I kill and manually restart gnome-do then it uses the correct interface.

Gnome-do does respond to my hotkey configuration (Ctrl+Shift+Space) so it's apparently reading the configuration file. But it is not setting the right interface.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
(mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$ rpm -q gnome-do
gnome-do-0.8.1.3-5.fc11.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure the interface.
2. Log out of GNOME, or reboot.
3. Login.
4. Bring up gnome-do.
  
Actual results:
The default interface is used.

Expected results:
The desired and configured interface is used.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Lorenzo 2009-08-20 00:26:56 UTC
This bug is caused by a broken startup order applications... Gnome-Do starts before compiz, so it can't find any composite manager and switch to classical interface.

A good workaround is adding at the beginning of /usr/bin/gnome-do (after #!/bin/sh) these lines:

pgrep -u “`id -un`” ‘^compiz$’
while [ $? = 1 ]; do
sleep 2
pgrep -u “`id -un`” ‘^compiz$’
done

By doing so, Gnome-Do waits for compiz start :)

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 11:31:19 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 3 Juan Manuel Rodriguez 2009-11-18 18:45:05 UTC
Does this still happen with gnome-do 0.8.2 ?

Comment 4 Darryl L. Pierce 2009-11-18 19:08:56 UTC
Yes, I still saw it occurring with the latest version available on F11. I'm now upgraded to F12 but have not rebooted enough to test for the pathology. I will, however, test it now and see.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 10:28:14 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:35:39 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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