On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Martin Pitt wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +1000 (EST) > From: Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#197335: qiv steals keystrokes from WM in fullscreen mode > X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=no > version=3.0.3 > > > As for the others, they probably are using very different widget sets to > > gtk2. > > > The reason I want to mark this bug as grave, is it has essentially > rendered my X session crashed. A few weeks ago, I had an qiv session that > I quit, and fortunately, it wasn't fullscreen, when the process > dissapeared, but the window remained behind. I just got the window > manager to destroy the window (closing it merely wasn't enough). It has > happened again just now, except that I was in fullscreen at the time. I > can't do anything. The window manager can't intercept any keystrokes > whatsoever (I haven't yet tried ctrl-alt-backspace; will leave that after > I exhaust all other avenues). There are no qiv processes left behind.
More info as it came to hand: The window manager now had control -- I was able to do bring up menus and the like via window manager keyboard shortcuts (I am using fvwm). I could start programs, but they wouldn't be displayed -- the qiv window was permanently over the top of all other windows, other than other new qiv fullscreen windows, and the window manager menus. I couldn't put the qiv window into the background via fvwm's "lower" function. I also couldn't move it or minimise it (other fullscreen apps are almost normal windows without decorations -- they can be moved via the window manager functions). FVWM comes with a restart window manager option, and when I invoked this, All windows temporarily appeared, but then were obscured by the zombie qiv window when fvwm had finished restarting. Killing the fvwm but not the X session, and then restarting a brand new fvwm session gave me full control of my windows again, but a mistake on my part killed X before I could find out where the qiv window had gone, so until this bug reappears, further debugging could be hard :) -- TimC I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. -- Linus Torvalds, 1991 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
