Notes app not working on 24.04 / Data location

Hi, @marcelo_martin :slight_smile:

Although I don't use the "Sticky Notes" applet in Ubuntu MATE, I just did two tests:

  • In my laptop running Ubuntu MATE 22.04.5 LTS ("Jammy Jellyfish"), if I add "Sticky Notes" to the Panel and I then create a note in "Sticky Notes", the content of the new note gets saved to the file ~/.config/mate/stickynotes-applet.xml BUT that only happens after I click on the padlock icon of that note:
>$ cat ~/.config/mate/stickynotes-applet.xml 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<stickynotes version="1.26.0">
  <note title="28/09/2024" locked="true" x="242" y="155" w="152" h="112">This is a Sticky note test in Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS ("Jammy Jellyfish")</note>
</stickynotes>
  • HOWEVER, in a VM running "Ubuntu MATE 24.04.1 LTS" ("Noble Numbat"), clicking on the "New Note" menu option of the "Sticky Notes" doesn't work, as you said. Indeed, at least in my case, it crashes with the error message "Sticky Notes" has quit unexpectedly :
    Sticky Notes has quit unexpectedly

The crash brings the "Sorry, Ubuntu 24.04 has experienced an internal error" window where the "Title" of the crash is revealed to be "stickynotes-applet crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_text_iter_compare()":

So, this also seems to me to be a bug :frowning_face:

EDIT: This may be another case of the following bug that I've now found ("Stickynotes crashes on Alpine Linux and Gentoo") in the "mate-desktop/mate-applets" GitHub Repository:

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