Wrong "Application Not Responding" Dialogs When Closing Applications

Jay Cliburn jcliburn at gmail.com
Tue Apr 25 13:54:04 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 23:36 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Jay Cliburn wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 06:49 -0500, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> >> I have encountered a problem since I upgraded from FC4 to FC5 where a
> >> Warning dialog box would come up saying something like
> >>
> >>   "The window 'blah blah blah' is not responding.
> >>    Forcing this application to quit will cause you to
> >>    lose any unsaved changes."
> ...
> >> 1. The warning dialog should never have popped up in the GEdit example.
> >> 2. The warning dialog should not have popped up so early in the
> >> Thunderbird example.
> >>
> >> I'm just wondering if this behavior is cause by me not doing a clean
> >> install or if anybody else have experienced similar problems.
> > 
> > I'm seeing the same behavior.  I thought it was just me.  I've seen it
> > primarily on Evolution, but on other apps as well (including
> > Ethereal-gnome, IIRC).
> On a clean install of FC5, I have seen times when the dialog is shown, 
> for example when I have nuked (X) pup update downloading because I need 
> to shut down the PC. However, I can not get it to happen when I try to 
> repeat the gedit example, and I haven't seen it happen in thunderbird 
> (pop-servers).
> 
> Would you be able to try to repeat these examples, but logged in as a 
> freshly created user, rather than an upgraded user ?

I'm operating from a fresh FC5 install.  I'll pay more attention to it
and jot down some notes going forward, now that I know it isn't
something isolated to just me.




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