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Hello, |
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I've been experiencing a problem with various programs for some time. |
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These programs use the GTK+ toolkit and when a particular menu is selected |
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from the main menu bar at the top a sub-menu of either very small height or |
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of no height (i.e. a thin line) will appear. Needless to say, the program |
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cannot be operated with such menus. |
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Usually, a program restart will fix the issue and restore normal menus |
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but sometimes several restarts are necessary. The error message that |
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is associated with these botched sub-menus is the following: |
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Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with |
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width 226 and height -118. |
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Somehow, the menu is being invoked with a _negative_ value for height, which |
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of course makes no sense. The resulting menu widget appears as a thin (one pixel) |
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horizontal line. |
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Through searches I've found nothing similar reported |
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Because this can happen with more than one program, I doubt if it is |
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the fault with any single package. GTK+ must be causing this. |
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Has anyone experienced similar behavior? |
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As I mentioned, a program restart usually fixes the problem. However, when |
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and if this problem will occur is not predictable. It happens only occasionally |
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and never consistently. |
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Frank Peters |
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