HUGE problems with gnucash and Ubuntu 7.10, just released

[Fredrik Persson]

Did you try and open account tabs long enough to cover the whole screen and
more? That's when the bugs show themselves, in my experience.

Please check to see if you've experienced any of the problems mentioned
here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/129867

/Fredrik Persson

On 10/22/07, Kim_Wood <kim.wood at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> Just my two cents worth...
>
> I am relatively new to the Ubuntu world - so I may be getting the
> following
> comments wrong.  I built a clean Ubuntu 7.10 system over the weekend and
> installed GNUcash 2.2.1 from the Ubuntu repositories.  Further, I turned
> on
> the full Compiz bells and whistles.  I don't seem to have the problems
> others are seeing.
>
> Has anyone else tried a clean install?  Might this mean that GNUcash is
> being clobbered by something else?  Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kim Wood
>
>
>
> Ron Morse-2 wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:51 +0200, Fredrik Persson wrote:
> >> The new Ubuntu release, 7.10, that's been out for a couple of days now,
> >> includes the so called "visual effects" by default. This is, as I
> >> understand it, Compiz Fusion desktop effects.
> >>
> >> Gnucash does not work very well under Compiz Fusion, I just noticed.
> For
> >> example, it is impossible to enter a date in a register by hand. This
> >> may very well be a redraw issue, I'm not sure. There are a lot of other
> >> graphic anomalies too. I'd post a screenshot, but I can't expose by
> >> personal fincances to the list. I urge the gnucash developers to try
> and
> >> run gnucash on a Ubuntu 7.10 box with visual effects turned on to see
> >> for themselves. It is very easy to find bugs, they're all over the
> >> place.
> >
> > Until a permanent fix is found, you can mitigate the problem by:
> >
> > system > preferences > appearance > visual effects
> >
> > then select "none" followed by "close"  This allows Gnucash, and other
> > applications similarly afflicted, to operate normally.  Once you are
> > finished with Gnucash you can re-enable Compiz in the same way.  Your
> > custom settings, if any, should be preserved.
> >
> > Ron Morse
> >
> >
> >
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