Hi,

I was having a problem and have seen similar reports in the forums of the bitcoin GUI not working on ubuntu 11.04.  This is repeatable when using either unity or compiz.  Disabling both of those works around the problem.

This workaround (http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx?view=revision&revision=67496) was submitted recently to the wxwidgets source repository.  I maintain a ppa archive of bitcoin packages (https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin), and patching that workaround seems to have fix the unity/compiz problem.

I'm not sure there is much that can be done with the bitcoin source tree to workaround the problem, so this is more of an FYI of the problem and the fix.

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David.

Hello,

I've setup a launchpad PPA to host Ubuntu packages of bitcoin.  Version 0.3.19 is up now with builds for maverick and lucid.  I've tested the Maverick build and it runs ok for me, I don't have a machine around to test Lucid.

The PPA is hosted at https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin

To install on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
sudo apt-get install bitcoin

then to run
bitcoin or bitcoind - both are in /usr/bin

If this works/doesn't work for anyone please let me know.

thanks!