G'day,
SWMBO finds that her document tabs occasionally just up and disappear on her. No error message or anything, they just... vanish! They quite happily reappear on a "Toggle All Additional Widgets", but may disappear again at some point.
This has been happening for a couple of weeks, across a few builds from SVN (including one just yesterday morning - r2879). I'm running Geany built at the same times from the same SVN revisions, and have not seen the problem even once.
I strongly suspect some interaction with the NVIDIA driver, as we basically differ on hardware: both of us running Fedora 9 x86-64 updated with the latest patches, but she's on a desktop Intel P4 with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, and I'm on a laptop AMD Athlon X2 TK-55 with NVIDIA GeForce 7000M; maybe the latest NVIDIA driver has a bug on 5* series cards?
The only other thing I can think of is that she is of the habit of selecting a dozen or more files in the sidebar and opening them all at once, to make global changes in them. I always open one file at a time, and rarely have more files open than the file tabs can display.
Anyway:
a) have you seen this before? (when / how?)
b) any tips on diagnosing it?
cheers, Ross.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:18:37 +1000, Ross McKay rosko@zeta.org.au wrote:
G'day,
SWMBO finds that her document tabs occasionally just up and disappear on her. No error message or anything, they just... vanish! They quite happily reappear on a "Toggle All Additional Widgets", but may disappear again at some point. [...] I strongly suspect some interaction with the NVIDIA driver, as we basically differ on hardware: both of us running Fedora 9 x86-64 updated with the latest patches, but she's on a desktop Intel P4 with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, and I'm on a laptop AMD Athlon X2 TK-55 with NVIDIA GeForce 7000M; maybe the latest NVIDIA driver has a bug on 5* series cards?
I strongly don't believe this has anything todo with the graphics drivers or even with the used chipsets.
The only other thing I can think of is that she is of the habit of selecting a dozen or more files in the sidebar and opening them all at once, to make global changes in them. I always open one file at a time, and rarely have more files open than the file tabs can display.
Anyway:
a) have you seen this before? (when / how?)
b) any tips on diagnosing it?
Erm, is it that certain documents get closed or is it just the notebook tab bar which disappears?
Maybe she accidentally double clicks on a notebook, then Geany hides 'additional widgets' and so the tab bar.
Maybe she is closing the documents accidentally by middle-clicking on the notebook tabs? But then a message should be in the status window that a document was closed.
Regards, Enrico
G'day Enrico, thanks for replying.
Erm, is it that certain documents get closed or is it just the notebook tab bar which disappears?
Only the tab bar disappears, as far as she's determined; no documents are closed, and all is fine after toggling all widgets and closing the message window again. Until the next loss of the tab bar.
Maybe she accidentally double clicks on a notebook, then Geany hides 'additional widgets' and so the tab bar. [...]
Aha! That's probably it, she has developed a habit of double-clicking on all sorts of things lately :) and she thanks you for the explanation and for taking the time to investigate.
If only I could convince her to use the keyboard more and the mouse less, the problem could disappear completely... ;)
cheers, Ross.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:32:31 +0200 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Maybe she accidentally double clicks on a notebook, then Geany hides 'additional widgets' and so the tab bar.
I think this behaviour is quite unusual, as it's not really related to documents at all. Maybe a toolbar button would be better instead?
Regards, Nick
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:16:02 +0100, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:32:31 +0200 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Maybe she accidentally double clicks on a notebook, then Geany hides
^^^^^^ this should have been 'notebook tab'
'additional widgets' and so the tab bar.
I think this behaviour is quite unusual, as it's not really related to documents at all. Maybe a toolbar button would be better instead?
It's an 'eclipse-like' feature. Someone requested some time ago. I guess if we move/remove it, there will be people missing it or even complaining about it. I don't think it is too bad.
Regards, Enrico