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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 Restore Default Scrollbars

Situation:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS(Precise)

Problem:
Please restore the default scrollbars.

Solution:
Run the following at command line:

sudo su
echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars
gnome-session-quit #log out and back in

References:

Error "string indices must be integers" When Deserializing Queryset


Situation:
Attempting to deserialize a django 1.5 queryset

from django.core import serializers
queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
data = serializers.serialize('json', queryset)
#... on another server, data loaded using urllib2:
obj = serializers.deserialize('json', data) # error

Problem:
Django returns the error "string indices must be integers"

Solution:
You are not deserializing what you think you are deserializing.  Look at the JSON string and it should be apparent.   I had this problem in two cases:

  1. I had accidentally serialized twice (the JSON string contained escaped quotation marks: \")
  2. There was an error message instead of the actual object


References:

  1. Django Docs:  Serialization