Re: Interesting UI bug

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2003.04.29 18:02 schrieb(en) E. ALLAUD:
> This bug bites me sometimes, and it seems like a gtk+ bug. I don't know 
> how to reproduce it exaclty, but it happens when I check my POP3 mboxes 
> and browse my mails at the same time (I suspect that it is triggered 
> when interacting with the gtk tree view and balsa is updating it by 
> adding the incoming mails). The tree is still functional but when you 
> click on a mail it does not get displayed (ie the balsamessage callbakc 
> is not called or blocked), and the cursor flickers (it seems to be 
> refreshed a lot). Here is the bt obtained by hitting ctrl-c :
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x410cfa0b in writev () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> #1  0x4117e710 in XUnlockDisplay () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> #2  0x4117f32f in _X11TransWritev () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> #3  0x4115fdc7 in _XSend () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> #4  0x4115524a in _XReverse_Bytes () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> #5  0x4115598b in XPutImage () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> 
> This seems like a loop in X events. It is sufficient to click on another 
> mailbox and back to the one the bug occured in to have all things 
> functional again.
> Weird, isn't it?

You can also reproduce something like this when looking for new mail one 
more then one times and everytime a new one arrived but you don't change 
something in the mailbox (you stay at the same mail all the time)

After that the new msg-count is updated, but you are not able to scroll 
somewhere else in the list, first you have to hit next unread...

very strange and hard to explain :-)

perhaps try with a few cron-jobs which does send mail to you, or some 
larger mails recieved with fetchmail...
just hit more than once get new mail and try to scroll to the last new one 
(you can't see it, 'cause the tree is one above the last (and new) one...)

it's simply not possible

cu
/Steffen

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