Tomboy Notes

[fwc]

Hey, I have been using Mint 7 for a while but I think some of the software is starting to get buggy. I use to have Tomboy Notes on my taskbar but for some reason it disappeared a few weeks ago and won't run from Gnome Do. This isn't really a problem as I don't use the notes much but whenever I shutdown it pops up a notice that it can't close Tomboy Notes so I have to confirm logout anyway. I thought that I could turn it off in the startup software but it isn't listed there. Can anyone give me an idea of either how to fix the program or turn it off completely. Thanks very much.

[lagagnon]

You must have a zombie or running background process of TomBoy. Try this in a terminal:

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killall `pidof tomboy`

That should kill any tomboy processes. Then open tomboy from the menu, reset its preferences if necessary, shut it down, close out any tomboy applet that remain on the bottom right of the panel and reboot. You should then be ok.

To re-add the tomboy applet to the panel right click on any free space of the panel and choose "Add Application Launcher"....

[RedWagon]

If a program won't launch from the menu, try starting it from a terminal window. That way if something goes wrong you'll have the terminal output that will give you clues what the problem is. For Tomboy just run

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tomboy

[fwc]

Thanks for the help guys. I did what you said and started Tomboy in the terminal and I got two things. Firstly, a long strange XML string kept repeating in the terminal for a minute until it stopped with some repeating hex number. Then the error that popped up in the GUI in bold letters read

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:TomboyApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

with Delete and Don't Delete as the two button options.

[dequire]

I had the same error after MintUpdate did it's thing on a new install. Weird thing is, I said not to un-install it. Instead I went to MintInstall and selected Tomboy Notes. When I hit apply, it said "Do you want to install this upgrade. I'm positive it said upgrade or update, in any event. So I let it and the problem went away. Odd.

[fwc]

I had the same error after MintUpdate did it's thing on a new install. Weird thing is, I said not to un-install it. Instead I went to MintInstall and selected Tomboy Notes. When I hit apply, it said "Do you want to install this upgrade. I'm positive it said upgrade or update, in any event. So I let it and the problem went away. Odd.

Thanks for the tip but are you sure it wasn't Synaptic? I went to MintInstall and Tomboy Notes wasn't listed.

[dequire]

Could have been. Installing OS's in the wee hours of the morning is not always a good thing.