Re: [fluxbox-users] Problem with fluxbox, or Xorg...

on 03/09/2010 01:05 PM Javier Vasquez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently Xorg incorporated the changes mentioned in:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=351d11fd466fae731df860a6ff4cf50ad565f43f
>
> This affects several window managers, including fluxbox, as you can
> see by the following arch-linux bug:
>
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18598

damn! so this is what made my fluxbox totally unusable after yesterdays 
update.  I asked on fedora-users, but there nobody cares.

So here is what I observe:
every second time when a new window opens the system stalls. The 
interface becomes totally unresponsive. No reaction to mouse clicks, 
hotkey combinations don't work, nothing helps. Only when I switch to 
console and kill the latest (only latest) started application I'm back 
to normal. Looks like all the clicks and keypresses are buffered during 
the system is unresponsive, and they get  executed all at once after the 
kill. This happens almost with every second window I open no matter of 
applications. Funny things happen with hotkey combinations. They can be 
executed only  it I remove the focus from the latest opened window, 
otherwise -- nothing works.

On top of that there are random crashes of some other applications (i.e. 
thunderbird) that work just fine on other WMs.

here is xorg-* stuff that was updated

Mar 08 23:02:24 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.5-5.fc12.x86_64
Mar 08 23:02:25 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.5-5.fc12.x86_64
Mar 08 23:03:19 Updated: xorg-x11-server-devel-1.7.5-5.fc12.x86_64
Mar 08 23:05:04 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-195.36.08-1.fc12.x86_64
Mar 08 23:05:08 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.36.08-1.fc12.i686
Mar 08 23:05:16 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.36.08-1.fc12.x86_64



>
> However it's not clear whether the Xorg changes are OK, and the window
> managers need to be compliant with them, or if it's Xorg which needs
> to revert the changes and never go that path...
>
> Notice it was found that bloated desktop window managers like for KDE
> or gnome, were not affected by the changes, essentially fluxbox,
> pekwm, and icewm...

Gnome and Openbox (to which I temporary switched now) are not affected. 
But I want back to fluxbox!


-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F12 x86_64, should this matter.

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./




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