Bug#505547: gnome: weird problems opening rxvt from application menu

[Noah Slater]

Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.22.2~5
Severity: normal

If you change the terminal application to rxvt instead of gnome-terminal and
open it from the applications menu, an rxvt window appears instantly, but if
move your mouse over the window decoration you get a progress pointer indicating
that something is being done. In the window panel you see ghost window (i.e. it
can't be maximised) that reads "Starting Terminal". This goes away after about
10 seconds.

I don't know what causes this, so please reassign as needed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome depends on:
ii  arj                        3.10.22-6     archiver for .arj files
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.23-2      Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii  bluez-gnome                0.27-1        Bluetooth utilities for GNOME
ii  epiphany-extensions        2.22.2-1      Extensions for Epiphany web browse
ii  evolution-exchange         2.22.3.dfsg-1 Exchange plugin for the Evolution
ii  evolution-plugins          2.22.3.1-1    standard plugins for Evolution
ii  evolution-webcal           2.21.92-1     webcal: URL handler for GNOME and
ii  gdm-themes                 0.6.1         Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  gnome-app-install          0.5.5.1-1     GNOME Application Installer
ii  gnome-desktop-environment  1:2.22.2~5    The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii  gnome-games                1:2.22.3-2    games for the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-spell                1.0.7-1       GNOME/Bonobo component for spell c
ii  gnome-themes-extras        0.9.0.deb0.4  various themes for the GNOME 2 des
ii  gnome-vfs-obexftp          0.4-1         GNOME VFS module for OBEX FTP
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg       0.10.4-3      FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.8-1      GStreamer plugins from the "ugly"
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring       2.22.3-2      PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  p7zip                      4.58~dfsg.1-1 7zr file archiver with high compre
ii  rhythmbox                  0.11.6-1      music player and organizer for GNO
ii  serpentine                 0.9-6         An application for creating audio
ii  swfdec-mozilla             0.8.2-1       Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macr
ii  synaptic                   0.62.1        Graphical package manager
ii  system-config-printer      1.0.0-3       graphical interface to configure t
ii  totem-mozilla              2.22.2-5      Totem Mozilla plugin
ii  transmission-gtk           1.34-1        free, lightweight BitTorrent clien

Versions of packages gnome recommends:
pn  gdebi                    <none>          (no description available)
pn  gnome-games-extra-data   <none>          (no description available)
pn  gnome-office             <none>          (no description available)
ii  gparted                  0.3.9-3         GNOME partition editor
ii  gthumb                   3:2.10.8-1      an image viewer and browser
ii  hal-cups-utils           0.6.16-3        Utilities to detect and configure
ii  hardinfo                 0.4.2.3-5       Displays system information
ii  liferea                  1.4.18-1        feed aggregator for GNOME
ii  menu-xdg                 0.3             freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii  network-manager-gnome    0.6.6-2         network management framework (GNOM
ii  pidgin                   2.4.3-4         graphical multi-protocol instant m
pn  tomboy                   <none>          (no description available)
ii  tsclient                 0.150-1         front-end for viewing of remote de
ii  update-notifier          0.70.7.debian-5 Daemon which notifies about packag

Versions of packages gnome suggests:
pn  gnome-dbg                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  openoffice.org-evolution      1:2.4.1-12 Evolution Addressbook support for
ii  openoffice.org-gnome          1:2.4.1-12 GNOME Integration for OpenOffice.o

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater