Bug 3087

Summary: creating action gives me non-responsive and modal 'Action Configuration' window
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Ray Kiddy <rayClaws>
Component: UIAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.8.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Ray Kiddy 2014-02-09 00:24:01 UTC
I am trying to set up a simple filter, just to move messages that are to a certain name to their own folder. I can set up the condition without problems.

When I use the 'Configuration' -> 'Filtering..." menu item, I get the 'Filtering Configuration' window. If I click on the "Define" button next to the Action textfield, I see the 'Action configuration' window. None of the buttons in this window respond to any mouse click. The close box for the window also does not work. If any button click in that window causes another window to pop up, then the buttons on that window do not seem to work either. Sometimes I can, somehow, close that window. But the 'Action configuration' window still does not respond in any helpful way. Since this window is modal, the only way to get out of this is to kill the app.

I am sure that if I could write out the action in the textfield, it would work fine. And I see the wiki page with some example actions, but there is no example of just moving a message to a folder.

I am somewhat new to using ubuntu as my desktop machine, so I may be doing something wrong but I do not see it. I can define a condition using the 'Condition configuration' window and that window's buttons respond and work fine. So, what is different about the 'Action configuration' window?

I am running Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS on an Asus Notebook PC. I am not sure what other information about this system you might need. Let me know if there is something that will help.
Comment 1 Paul 2014-02-09 09:48:48 UTC
Looks like another overlay-scrollbar bug.

Please remove the overlay-scrollbar and overlay-scrollbar-gtk2 packages from your system. They are buggy and should not be used.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3022 ***
Comment 2 Ray Kiddy 2014-02-12 21:50:45 UTC
Thanks for the info. I found a suggestion that seems better than removing the package. It is to run:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false

cheers - ray
Comment 3 Paul 2014-02-12 22:04:25 UTC
Not sure if that's better than removing it! :)
Anyway, this patch has now been added to Claws:
http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=patch;h=40b67269c735beb4897f9522afdf245fc0fcb581