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In Gnotime, when I open help, the help system hogs my system resources and simply displays an empty Yelp screen. If I run Gnotime in Terminal, I get this message:
GTT: GConf: Warning: get /apps/gnotime/LogFile/Filename failed: Using default value
I am running it on Linux 3.0.0-17-generic on an HP, on an AMD64 system, with Ubuntu 11.10(Oneiric). Thanks in advance.
You're probably running into this bug.
I had downloaded source code of modern Yelp 3.26 (shipped with 18.04 LTS) and grep-ed it for scrollkeeper occurencies:
apt-get source yelp
cd yelp-3.26.0
Grepping does not get results in code, only in text files
$ grep -ir scroll.*keeper . | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
./ChangeLog:
./debian/changelog:
./NEWS:
One of the results from Changelog states:
./ChangeLog: Update slightly to remove scrollkeeper references
./ChangeLog: - Switch to using rarian instead of scrollkeeper
But they do not use even rarian in application code:
$ grep -ir rarian .
./ChangeLog: Port to Rarian 0.8 series
./ChangeLog: - Switch to using rarian instead of scrollkeeper
./ChangeLog: Convert search across to use Rarian
./ChangeLog: Now Rarian is fast, don't split out man and info pages.
./ChangeLog: Spoon is now Rarian. Bump min version to 0.5.0
./NEWS:* Port to Rarian 0.8 series
./NEWS: - Remove scrollkeeper in favour of Rarian
./debian/changelog: - Build depend on librarian-dev (>= 0.7.0).
./debian/changelog: + added build-depends on librarian-dev.
So full-text search is not available in Yelp because of removed ScrollKeeper and Rarian indexers.
Notes:
if you are using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS you can install build-dependencies, download and apply this patch:
# software-properties-gtk # enable Source code repositories
sudo apt-get build-dep yelp
sudo apt-get install devscripts
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/uploads/b51ee8a2dc22f423f06e0293476328e5/xref-handling-and-indexing-for-help-list.patch
mv xref-handling-and-indexing-for-help-list.patch yelp-3.18.1/debian/patches
cd yelp-3.18.1
echo "xref-handling-and-indexing-for-help-list.patch" >> debian/patches/series
debuild -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../*yelp*.deb
After installation you can test patched version of Yelp. Launch it, navigate to All Help, press Ctrl+S and enter for example calculator and press Enter:
But it seems that search works only in titles, not in full text.
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I seem to be having the same problem.
Strangly only happens on certain programs (eg grsync and terminal) and not others (eg gedit and nautilus).
When it happens my system is not workable, the empty help page forces itself on the foreground. It closes upon Quit or Force Quit from launcher, but immediately opens again. I can move other open windows, but can't use them since the help page sort of 'forces itself' and doesn't allow input in other apps. CPU load goes up, due to yelp and xorg, but not to 100%.
Typing 'yelp' in terminal without arguments works fine, except for several repeats of this message: ** Message: console message: @0: event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future. (don't know what that means)
I want to backtrace, but since everything works fine from terminal there's no real use, so I was wondering what arguments yelp needs to display specific help info (eg for grsync)? Without arguments 'Ubuntu desktop guide' is displayed and everything is fine.
I'd appreciate any help, thanks
Precise Pangolin 64-bit, Kernel 3.2.0-24-generic, Intel® Core™ i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz × 4, AMD Radeon HD 7400M Series on a Sony Vaio laptop