You have been subscribed to a public bug by Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur): Binary package hint: compiz
I'm experiencing problems with graphics windows in rkward 0.5.6 (obtained from https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-stable). Basically, the window is closed, directly after opening it. To reproduce 1. start rkward 2. wait until the status indicator at the lower right turns green 3. switch to the "R Console" 4. type "plot (1, 1)" [Enter]. Expected behavior: A plot window appears. Actual behavior: No window appears. Executing step 4 in an R terminal session works without apparent problems. Note that that the problem does *not* occur with RKWard 0.5.4. After some diagnostics, the developer of RKWard (Thomas Friedrichsmeier) told me that it is very likely to be a bug in my window manager (i.e. compiz version 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2), and I should open this bug report incuding the following backgound information: - RKWard uses XReparentWindow to "capture" R graphics windows - The difference between rkward 0.5.4 and 0.5.6 with respect to graphics windows is that in rkward 0.5.6, two separate processes are involved. I.e. the graph window is created from the "rkward.rbackend" process, and it is captured by the "rkward.fronted" process. Before RKWard 0.5.5, a single process was involved, only. - The windows are reparented from the root window after they have been mapped - This works reliably in many different window managers, including kwin and metacity - It also appears to work ok with compiz 0.8.4-4 on the developer's Debian sid system. - Apparently there have been some recent changes with respect to handling of XReparentWindow, in response to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/743011 . Perhaps this is related. ** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- problems with graphics windows in rkward 0.5.6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793089 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
