"Find" no longer works

[Donald Allen]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Andrew Ruscica <avr at jet2.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:58:58PM -0800, fml at petrel.rprc.washington.edu wrote:
>  > For some time now, "Find" no longer works.  If I click on Edit/Find,
>  > several small windows open and vanish before anything in them can be
>  > read.  This used to work!
>  >
>  > I'm running gnucash-2.2.3 (Debian/lenny-testing).  I've similarly
>  > whined on debian-users without getting any response.  Everything
>  > else that I've tried works.
>  >
>  > If anyone has any clue regarding how to make this work once more -
>  > or even how to get more revealing diagnostic clues, I'd appreciate
>  > it.  (I tried running it with strace but didn't see anything helpful
>  > in the deluge.)  I haven't (yet) tried building gnucash directly.
>  >
>  > Thanks for any constructive ideas you might have!
>  >
>  >       -f
>
>  Does your window manager happen to be fvwm? For me, gnucash does similar
>  things under fvwm but is fine under kde. I'm running 2.2.2 on OpenSuse/i386.

I'm running 2.2.3 on an up-to-date gentoo system with fluxbox (no
gnome or kde). Find works properly. I'd guess Andrew's on the right
track and a good experiment would be to try a different window
manager.

/Don


>
>  If that is the case, there was some discussion a couple months ago on this
>  list, but as far as I know it's not yet resolved.
>
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