I have found the same issue. Just switched theme to Dust and now I can launch Lotus Notes 8.5 without a problem. Earlier it started up, but when it was to display the mail or calendar it just hung as described above. Changing the theme from New Wave to another one was the workaround.
-- In Jaunty 9.04 using theme New Wave will block IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 from starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357264 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs