[chandler-users] Annoying modality bug with "Purging..." and "Tip..." dialog

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi William,

> No, I have gkrellm running and it showed my cpu and disk usage were very
> low.  Recall that even after it had finished purging the data the
> interface was still stuck.  I sshed into the system to kill chandler,
> which is the only way I could free up the X subsystem.  The system was
> very responsive.  Just X was stuck with a grab of the mouse and the
> focus not on the dialog box that could free it.

OK, then it sounds like an errant mouse-capture.  Still annoying, but 
not the issue I was thinking of.  I haven't heard of this issue before.

> Well it's not reliable, but I can get it to happen every couple of times
> by just doing Tools-> Repository -> Compact and then hovering my mouse
> over one of the column separators so that it changes to the double arrow
> cursor before the purge dialog pops-up (it does help having some disk
> I/O to slow down the disk accesses).

Hmm.  From your description, it sounds like a wx Linux bug.  Helpful 
that it's (somewhat) reproducible.

> Not that I really have time for this but where can I get the source?
> Maybe I'll take a look some evening this week or weekend.

If you downloaded a binary build, most of Chandler's logic is in Python, 
so you can see browse the source in whatever you're running, but 
instructions for running from source are here:

http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/RunningChandlerFromSourceReleases

Sincerely,
Jeffrey