On Sat 05 May 2018 at 20:24:05 +0200, Rhialto wrote: > I have no idea if the following is related to this change (I can think > of no real correlation except in time), but in the last several days the > following happened to me twice:
It's even a bit weirder. It is happening more now... > 1. I was watching something with mplayer, full-screen. That uses the > EWMH fullscreen feature of being on top when focused. > 2. Xscreensaver kicked in, fading out the screen to black. > 3. For some reason, when that happens there is always a short hickup in > playing. I never checked it in detail but I suspect some window > blocks the screen, similar to when (c)twm draws a window outline > 3. I moved the mouse to stop the screensaver. > 4. The screensaver ended but mplayer didn't continue playing. Apparently it is not timing sensitive, something may have changed in mplayer (I recently rebuilt all my packages). Mplayer stops playing as soon as xscreensaver puts up its own window. And even when I (try to) type into mplayer to make it continue (either its fullscreen window or the xterm it runs in), it doesn't. > The window stayed fullscreen and blocked everthing else in the > workspace. When switching to the workspace, nothing was (re)drawn so > it looked as if I was still in the previous workspace. > 5. I moved the fullscreen mplayer window to a different workspace > (to get access to the xterm where mplayer was running from) and > killed mplayer. > 6. Strangely enough, the window did not disappear from the workspace > manager, even though its corresponding real window was gone. The real window wasn't actually gone(!!!) In the workspace where I moved it to, it kept behaving like a non-painting fullscreen window, inhibiting any redraws. Even though I'd kill -9'ed mplayer. > 7. After a while, apparently while I was writing this email, it turned > out that the mini-window was gone anyway. I didn't notice when it > happened. It doesn't always take the same amount of time. I thought at some point that it was just the workspace manager window lagging reality; perhaps it would update itself if a new window appeared. But that wasn't it. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly.
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