#311 Restaring Ubuntu with Xiphos open gives error messages

[Wolfgang Stradner]

Turning off Ubuntu 8.04 with Xiphos 3.0.1 still on, and starting Unbuntu again, Xiphos shows up for some moments, and then gives the error messages: Xiphos does not understand more than one argument.
There are more than one error message. Their number equals 1 (for the program) and one message for each resource in a seperate window.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I'm getting a similar thing on gOS, which is an Ubuntu-derived operating system. I've discovered a quick solution.

1. Ensure no copies of xiphos are running (running "killall xiphos" can do this)
2. Make a backup of your xiphos settings (I used "cp -a .xiphos .xiphos.bak")
3. Open .xiphos/settings.xml in a text editor, find the element called "app_y", and set the value to 0 (mine was set to 2406).
4. Save the file
5. Try starting xiphos again.

I don't know what the real solution is, but this got me up and running again.

[Karl Kleinpaste]

based on the observation about app_y being weird, what i've done is to add some paranoia code that clamps app_x and app_y to reasonable values. i believe xiphos gets an insane reconfig event as the system is shutting down, leading to app_y == 2406. (no real monitor is 2400+ pixels tall.)

i am not sure this will fix the problem as originally reported, but it's at least a very good stab. file a new report if there is still trouble after 3.1 is released tomorrow.