Catfish Gtk error

dbvolvox · 2021-03-02 08:44:44

I am an infrequent user of Catfish so cannot be sure when this error began. Catfish no longer runs from menu (BL-lithium), when started from terminal I get this error message.

david@debian:~$ catfish

(catfish:4246): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:33:26.887: ../../../../gtk/gtkwidget.c:8584: widget not within a GtkWindow

Have searched but cannot see anything recent on Gtk errors that fits.

Last edited by hhh (2021-03-05 00:20:08)

DeepDayze · 2021-03-02 14:29:39

I get the same error but the Catfish window opens for me either from menu or commandline and the app functions correctly.

sleekmason · 2021-03-02 14:31:56

dbvolvox wrote:

I am an infrequent user of Catfish so cannot be sure when this error began. Catfish no longer runs from menu (BL-lithium), when started from terminal I get this error message.
david@debian:~$ catfish

(catfish:4246): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:33:26.887: ../../../../gtk/gtkwidget.c:8584: widget not within a GtkWindow
Have searched but cannot see anything recent on Gtk errors that fits.

The GTK error is probably not an issue. I get the same error from catfish. many of the programs will throw gtk errors. Mousepad throws 5 here.

You could try:

killall catfish ; catfish

to kill any running instances first and then restart catfish. (guessing this should do it).

There is also the catfish rc in ~/.config/catfish - This shouldn't be an issue, but might want to look.

dolly · 2021-03-02 16:11:56

I remember having the same trouble on "Lithium", "Buster". A bit off topic, but Catfish works well on "Beryllium" so far.

hhh · 2021-03-03 04:23:44

Known issue, Catfish is troublesome to start on BL. The GTK errors are not the issue AFAICT. Switch to the Adwaita theme and check, that will give you more accurate feedback.

Try opening catfish with a terminal, then maximize the window and close it. It will hopefully open from the menu or Run dialog after that.

dbvolvox · 2021-03-03 09:05:23

Thanks, tried what @sleekmason and @hhh suggest and both work for the duration of the session. Any ideas for a fix that survives rebooting. The debian repository is version 1.4.7-1 which dates to 2019 and there have been versions since then.

ohnonot · 2021-03-04 07:07:28

dbvolvox wrote:

Any ideas for a fix that survives rebooting.

Can you reproduce the problem after a reboot?
Is one of the two workarounds mentioned here enough to fix it?

dbvolvox · 2021-03-04 08:19:54

ohnonot wrote:

Can you reproduce the problem after a reboot?
Is one of the two workarounds mentioned here enough to fix it?

Both workarounds only last until the next boot. even D-menu doesn't work. It's not a biggie just irksome! I can start via terminal.

Last edited by dbvolvox (2021-03-04 08:22:27)

sleekmason · 2021-03-04 13:43:32

Can you start from a terminal without the "killall"? If so, may be a menu problem as well. And dmenu, do you open from a keybind? or the menu?

ohnonot · 2021-03-04 16:45:05

dbvolvox wrote:

Both workarounds only last until the next boot.

That's not exactly what I asked. I meant: Is one of the workarounds _alone_ enough to fix it? Once we know that we can either troubleshoot further and ultimately solve this or offer you a permanent workaround.

dbvolvox wrote:

even D-menu doesn't work.

Sounds like a separate problem that would require a separate explanation.

dbvolvox · 2021-03-04 23:42:03

Discovered today that if I have accessed my NAS box then Catfish opens from the menus. Since i hardly keep anything locally I would often have done that before thinking about a file search so hadn't noticed the behaviour before.

So I guess it is trying to access a drive that is still asleep and hangs? So not a Catfish bug. Maybe my fstab or automount settings are lacking?

hhh · 2021-03-05 00:19:27

-mod edit- I'm un-marking this solved, Catfish is definitely buggy outside of the gnome-shell (I've had no issues with it on Debian Cinnamon).

DeepDayze · 2021-03-05 03:48:43

hhh wrote:

-mod edit- I'm un-marking this solved, Catfish is definitely buggy outside of the gnome-shell (I've had no issues with it on Debian Cinnamon).

Is there a bug report for it now?

brontosaurusrex · 2021-03-05 10:07:48

It looks fixed in Bullseye, at least no errors are visible

ohnonot · 2021-03-05 18:40:15

dbvolvox wrote:

Discovered today that if I have accessed my NAS box then Catfish opens from the menus. Since i hardly keep anything locally I would often have done that before thinking about a file search so hadn't noticed the behaviour before.
So I guess it is trying to access a drive that is still asleep and hangs? So not a Catfish bug. Maybe my fstab or automount settings are lacking?

This is definitely something I have seen with network drives, regardless of the software.
I use NFS. NAS kinda sounds like Samba?

hhh · 2021-03-06 01:37:02

DeepDayze wrote:

hhh wrote:
-mod edit- I'm un-marking this solved, Catfish is definitely buggy outside of the gnome-shell (I've had no issues with it on Debian Cinnamon).
Is there a bug report for it now?

I don't think so, but we've trouble shot it as much as we could so far. Catfish will open via a terminal command, so it's not a critical bug. If you have any insight, please open a bug report.

johnraff · 2021-03-06 01:58:54

Catfish opens fine for me from the menu on BL Lithium. It was a bit unreliable in the past, agreed. The only thing I can think of that might possibly relate is that I recently installed dbus-user-session.

@dbvolvox if you could try installing that and seeing if it makes a difference? You might have to reboot to see any change. Of course, feel free to remove it afterwards if it doesn't help.

hhh · 2021-03-06 02:20:25

Testing again, Catfish opens fine from the Debian bullseye cinnamon menu. It does not open for me with whatever buster jgmenu I'm using (it might be out of date on my system). Opens fine from a terminal or gmrun.

tknomanzr · 2021-03-06 03:07:55

hhh wrote:

Testing again, Catfish opens fine from the Debian bullseye cinnamon menu. It does not open for me with whatever buster jgmenu I'm using (it might be out of date on my system). Opens fine from a terminal or gmrun.

It also opens fine for me from the old openbox menu.xml. Could it be a jgmenu issue?

hhh · 2021-03-06 04:20:34

tknomanzr wrote:

hhh wrote:
Testing again, Catfish opens fine from the Debian bullseye cinnamon menu. It does not open for me with whatever buster jgmenu I'm using (it might be out of date on my system). Opens fine from a terminal or gmrun.
It also opens fine for me from the old openbox menu.xml. Could it be a jgmenu issue?

I doubt it. It's a real bug, I think. An old one.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/question … 175503568/

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=746251

I'll need a minute to test install mlocate...

https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index. … ic=25927.0

-edit- Already installed, no joy.

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