Trouble shooting

So you have maybe caught a bug or hamster is behaving strange on your system.

Here is what you could do before asking for help.

1. If something is not working, first thing to to is to check if there are any errors.
   • Remove hamster applet from panel
   • Fire up terminal and run
     /usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet -w
     The -w switch tells hamster to run in a tiny little window instead of as applet. Now try to do the same thing you did and see if terminal prints out any errors.
2. Check if the same thing happens, when you install hamster from sources of the stable version. Follow the linked instructions, and just right after the git clone, perform switch to the stable branch:
   git checkout origin/gnome-<version, hit tab for autocomplete> -b gnome-<use same version here>
3. Look in the list of existing bugs, and there is nothing like that mentioned, hooray for you, you might have found a new bug, file it away!

We will be very grateful if you follow these steps because it shortens all the bouncing back and forth until we figure out what is going on.