On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:47:03PM -0600, Jonathan Kotta wrote:
> I realize that xcompmgr is not supposed to be stable, but it's so
> close, and so nice. I don't use the shadows, just transparency.  It's
> useful to look through a window I'm typing in to see information in
> the window beneath it.  I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and
> I've found these problems:
> 
> - Text display in Motif apps is buggy (OK, I only have one that I really use)

> - Shading with multiple steps is buggy (OK, just use steps = 0)

I don't think I'm going to fix this one.  It's been very tedious
to do it right without the new features :-/

> - Edges stop working after xcompmgr is started/stopped (OK, just restart FVWM)
> - icons (Not OK, read on)

> Symptoms:
> Xorg and fvwm use a lot of CPU.  Sometimes X uses more, sometimes
> fvwm.  xcompmgr sometimes starts leaking memory at around 1 MB/sec.

This can happen if an application receives messages from the X
server faster than it can process them.

> Steps to reproduce:
> Run FVWM with a null config.  Open an app, iconify it, and somehow
> remove the icon from view.  The apps I was able to reproduce the
> problem with were the GIMP, GQView, gnome-terminal, Firefox, and
> FrostWire.  I think the common trait is that all of them supply an
> icon pixmap.  It doesn't matter if a window is moved over the icon or
> if the window is already over where the icon appears (icons are
> automatically lowered).  It seems that the icon has to be completely
> covered.  It happens even if you move to a different page.  I've tried
> using twm to reproduce the error, no go.
> 
> Fixes:
> Kill xcompmgr, the iconified app, or uncover the icon.
> 
> If anyone has encountered this icon problem too, let me know so I know
> it's not just my system.  I'm using FVWM 2.5.14, Xorg 6.8.2, xcompmgr
> from cvs, Ubuntu Breezy, and nVidia drivers 1.0-8178.

I'd love to debug this problem, but I'm still stuck with XFree.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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