From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: When I have several windows open, the taskbar sometimes freezes. It does not respond to mouse clicks, although alt+tab still allows you to navigate between the different windows. What happens next is that either I need to log out and back in, OR the taskbar starts working again spontaneously after a while (it starts working in a delayed manner then resumes its normal speed). At the time of the freeze, the windows that are open vary between 3 and 7. They are usually Lyx, Mozilla, Kwrite, sometimes openoffice and pine. This freezing of the taskbar never happened when I was doing similar things with Fedora 1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.2.2-4 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using the KDE desktop, open several windows (several combinations can do it, in my case it's usually Lyx, mozilla, kwrite, maybe with openoffice or pine) 2. After a while, the taskbar freezes and no longer allows you to navigate from one window to the next. Actual Results: The taskbar froze. Expected Results: The taskbar should have allowed me to keep moving from one window to the next. Additional info: This never happened under Fedora 1.
with your steps, i have tried to reproduce this problem on my machine with FC2, but it works fine for me here. which qt version did you install on your machine?
I'm using qt-3.3.2-2
I have seen some reports about this problem before and it seems to be fixed after the new qt-3.3.2 has been updated. it's not easy to fix this problem if it's not always reproduceable! Could you please check again that you really have qt-3.3.2 running on your machine?
Yes, I double checked and my computer consistantly tells me that it is running qt-3.3.2-2 Thanks a lot for trying to fix it!
Things I would wonder are whether you have the screensaver enabled or if you have your panel set to auto-hide. Our machine(s) that had this the worst seemed to have both of these enabled.
I seem to have about the same problem here. I can move the mouse, but when I click something it doesn't respond... keyboard shortcuts still work. after a few seconds, all my mouse-actions are executed and everything works fine after that... for a while... It looks to me like it's being triggered by mozilla, but I'm not 100% sure of that.... Before FC2 I ran RH9, and didn't have the problem there. I installed FC2 clean, I didn't upgrade. % rpm -q qt qt-3.3.2-2
I don't have my panel set to auto-hide. I don't really use a screensaver but my screen is set to go black after a few minutes. The taskbar freeze happened to me again twice in the last two days. The first time I had 3 items in the taskbar: Kwrite + Lyx + Lyx DVI preview. The second time I had 4: openoffice + Lyx + Lyx DVI preview + KGhostview displaying a PDF document. In both cases, I could move the mouse arrow, but the clicks on the taskbar didn't do anything. I used keyboard shortcuts (alt+tab) to navigate between my windows, and after a while the taskbar started to respond again.
I get about one taskbar freeze a day (i.e. one for about 6h to 7h on the computer). Today it involved: Lyx, Mozilla, openoffice, pine, gtkpod and grip. The "recovery" was slightly faster than usual, taking around 15-20 seconds.
I have the same behavior. Here are some quick facts: kdebase-3.2.2-4 qt-3.3.2-2 - I have 6 virtual desktops - It happens with the following applets, sometimes more: clock, logout/lock Catherine pretty much describes the same behavior that I see.
It's strange i still cannot reproduce this problem here. does this problem still show up if you remove klipper applet?
I want to say that I saw the behavior without klipper as well but I am going to remove the applet just to be sure.
I have just removed the klipper applet, and will report back in a couple of days. It would be great if it were that, because the frequency of the freezes increased quite a lot recently - from every 4-5h to every 15mn or so (with 1 to 3 windows open, mainly Lyx, Lyx DVI preview and pine). Using alt+tab to change windows is a way to keep working through the freezes, although it isn't ideal.
I removed klipper and the problem hasn't occurred. I will report back if I find otherwise but that looks like the problem.
My taskbar freezes have stopped too, now that I have removed clipper. IT seems that this was causing the problem.
Also for me the removal of klipper seems to have helped. I was starting to notice that the freezes occured sometimes when I was selecting some text...
I updated my home pc to FC3t2 (from FC1). With FC1 and my personal account - no problems at all and ever, but two friends (with accounts on my pc) had. Now, when I installed FC3t2 I very rarely have 2-3 second freezes. My friend has FC2 and sometimes mozilla freezes for 5-10 seconds with KDE (we never tested GNOME) and sometimes (rarely) with other apps. I'll try removing klipper now.
it's not reproduceable in FC3 and with KDE-3.3.1 for FC2.