Created attachment 4516 The normal window and three empty Using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, XFce 4.8.0.3, xfce4-notes 1.7.7-2ubuntu1, laptop Samsung NP350U2B with Intel 3000 graphics card. After installing XFce on Ubuntu with Unity all worked well. After I have installed KDE4 Desktop Environment, in XFce4 Notes plugin began to work strange: activated plugin opens four windows (a normal window, and three transparent, empty and dark windows near by the normal one, they also remember their last position, it is impossible to input a text into them).
Can you check what you have inside ~/.local/share/notes/? $ find ~/.local/share/notes/
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you check what you have inside ~/.local/share/notes/? > > $ find ~/.local/share/notes/ -------------------------------------------------------- $ find ~/.local/share/notes/ /home/def/.local/share/notes/ /home/def/.local/share/notes/cur /home/def/.local/share/notes/tmp /home/def/.local/share/notes/new /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Заметки 4 /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Заметки 5 /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Заметки 6 /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Заметки 2 /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Заметки /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Заметки 3 /home/def/.local/share/notes/Notes/Notes --------------------------------------------------------- The bug still appears.
the empty groups are created because of the files/directories cur, tmp, and new. are these files/directories created automatically? do you know the nature of them? can you provide the output of stat: stat ~/.local/share/notes/cur stat ~/.local/share/notes/tmp stat ~/.local/share/notes/new anyway, there clearly are issues in case files are created outside the application in the notes directory, the code can be patched for different kind of issues (also related to bug 9342.) thanks for your input. - m
> can you provide the output of stat: > stat ~/.local/share/notes/cur > stat ~/.local/share/notes/tmp > stat ~/.local/share/notes/new Sorry, I have already deleted these directories (I guessed that they caused the empty windows). Now there is only one window for notes, all right. I don't know, how these dirs were created. Thanks.
This problem still exists in Ubuntu 14.04. It irritates me every time I have to reinstall Ubuntu. Please re-open the bug. What I believe caused the bug for me is that I had installed KDE and *then* installed XFCE. I'm not sure why the xfce-goodies installer decided to create these useless directories that cause this bug when installing the notes plugin. Since KDE had already been installed it wasn't the fault of that. If no one can figure out why the useless directories are being created, it's programmatically easy to have the notes plugin ignore them. Steps to reproduce: Install KDE Install XFCE including the xfce-goodies package Open Notes Observe bug