GTK+ windows freezing after some time.

[Achaean]

Hi!

Does someone else has problems with gtk application windows?
If I'll leave long enough (eg. 2-3h.) a gtk application window open, it just freezing and displaying a grey empty square.
I can only then press close and after a while task manager ask me to close, I confirm and that's it.

The workaround I found, is closing the main window and leaving the program running in the background, with visible only the tray icon (either with programs tray icons like azureus has, or setting an one with kde menu editor for programs without one, like firefox).
When I need it, I can restore it, use it and close it to tray again.

Does someone else has this problem?
Is it a bug of kwin or kde-gtk libraries that should be reported?

[PaulW2U]

Are you experiencing one of one of these bugs I wonder? More likely to be related to bug #963736 I think.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...en/+bug/963736
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ra...3/+bug/1142213

Both in the process of being fixed.

Do you have the oxygen-gtk theme enabled? What happens if you apply an alternative theme?

If it's not either of these then I would search this forum for links to other bug reports as I've never experienced exactly what you are seeing. Running GTK programs in Kubuntu 13.04 has certainly been problematical for some of us.

[SteveRiley]

Indeed, an update to gtk3-engines-oxygen appeared in raring-proposed this morning:

steve@t520:~$ [B]apt-cache policy gtk3-engines-oxygen[/B] 
gtk3-engines-oxygen:
  Installed: 1.1.4-0ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 1.1.4-0ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.4-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://mirror.anl.gov/ubuntu/ raring-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.anl.gov/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages

[Achaean]

THANKS guys!!!

Indeed I have oxygen enabled.
Let me try another theme and I'll be back asap.

I'll also try the new update.


EDIT

I switched away from oxygen-gtk.
I couldn't found any visible difference between default and emacs, so I kept the default enabled.
I don't know if it's a bug or an intented feature, but although oxygen-gtk it's much more beautiful and familiar to kde interface, it's not very functional for programs with a lot of columns (like Azureus).
With oxygen-gtk I had to do a lot of columns resizing in order to have a proper and functional display, while with the default the displayed columns are working out of the box, without touching them.
So, I uninstalled oxygen-gtk completelly.