Bug 1027703
| Summary: | KDE Task manager widget not removing all closed windows | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Ben <ben.argyle> | ||||
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Jan Grulich <jgrulich> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | ||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | urgent | ||||||
| Version: | 6.6 | CC: | alanm, jgrulich, jherrman, jkurik, redhat, rvdwees, rvokal, tpelka | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Previously, windows and application closed in the K desktop environment (KDE) in some cases remained in the KDE task manager widget. This update modifies the behavior of the task manager, and closed windows and applications are now reliably removed from the widget.
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| : | 1232259 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2015-10-22 09:32:48 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 1232259 | ||||||
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Description
Ben
2013-11-07 10:14:36 UTC
Easily reproduceable on RHEL 6.5 or 6.6: (1) Login to a fresh KDE session. (2) Bringing up the properties of the Task Manager, then check the box for "Only show tasks from the current desktop". (3) Open a Konsole window. Right-click its title bar and set it to show on "All Desktops". (4) Switch to a different desktop, and on this new desktop, close that Konsole window by hitting the "X" in the upper right. (6) Switch back to your previous desktop and there will now be a ghost Konsole entry stuck in your taskbar forever there. The bug is this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202199 And is fixed in KDE checkin r1063320, as mentioned in the KDE bug ticket. To test, I took the patch from r1063320, applied it to RHEL6.6's kde-workspace SRPM, rebuilt RPMs, and the problem is fixed. Sorry, that should read "kdebase-workspace", not "kde-workspace". Created attachment 956102 [details]
Task Manager patch
This is the patch from KDE checkin r1063320, for kdebase-workspace-4.3.4-28.el6_5.
(In reply to Bob Farmer from comment #2) > Easily reproduceable on RHEL 6.5 or 6.6: > (1) Login to a fresh KDE session. > (2) Bringing up the properties of the Task Manager, then check the box for > "Only show tasks from the current desktop". > (3) Open a Konsole window. Right-click its title bar and set it to show on > "All Desktops". > (4) Switch to a different desktop, and on this new desktop, close that > Konsole window by hitting the "X" in the upper right. > (6) Switch back to your previous desktop and there will now be a ghost > Konsole entry stuck in your taskbar forever there. > > The bug is this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202199 > And is fixed in KDE checkin r1063320, as mentioned in the KDE bug ticket. > > To test, I took the patch from r1063320, applied it to RHEL6.6's > kde-workspace SRPM, rebuilt RPMs, and the problem is fixed. Bob, i have tried your steps to reproduce this issue but without success. It seems it's not always reproduceable with your steps! Could you please provive more infos? Thanks I re-tested with a freshly installed RHEL6.6 system and newly-created user account, and had no problem reproducing it. Here's exactly what I did, and I'll try to be a little more precise. (1) Install 64-bit RHEL Workstation 6.6 from RH's DVD, adding the "KDE Desktop" package set of course. Defaults for everything else. (2) Login as the user that you created during the install, with a KDE session. (3) Right-click on the Task Manager, bring up the Settings, check the box that reads "Only show tasks from the current desktop". Hit OK to save. (4) Right-click on the empty desktop and bring up a Konsole window. (5) Right-click on Konsole's title bar and set it to show on "All Desktops". (6) Switch to Desktop 2. (7) Click on the "X" at the upper right of the Konsole window to close it. (8) Switch back to Desktop 1. (9) You should now see the Konsole ghost entry stuck in your taskbar. I'm sure the problem occurs in multiple situations, but this is the most straightforward way we've found to reproduce it. By the way, if you tried testing on your normal user account, some of your other Task Manager options may have influenced the behavior. Only certain combinations of settings cause the problem. That's why I suggested a fresh session/user. Just as a data point, it's not just Konsole windows that do it. I regularly get Red Hat-packaged Firefox window entries hanging around, too. Likewise some Skype ones. And this is without trying to send the windows to other desktops. I continue to 'fix' it by removing and readding the Task Manager widget. But that's been getting old for quite a while now! Any chance of the patch being folder in some time soon, please? Just a nudge that this is still happening and I'm having to remove and re-add the Task Manager applet at least two or three times a day to ensure only live windows are shown. We've been running with the patch I mentioned earlier for about 3 months now, and the problem hasn't re-occurred for our users. I don't suppose you could let me have a copy of your most recently rolled kdebase-workspace RPM, could you please? (-: Ben, Bob i have built new packages with the fix and uploaded to https://than.fedorapeople.org/rhel6/ Could you please download it and confirm that the new package fixes the issue? Thanks. Than If you roll some i686 ones then I'll do it immediately! (-: Ben Ben, i even uploaded the i688 rpms. Please try again :) Excellent! Thank you. Give me a few days to try them out and I'll post my results. Hopefully by the end of the working day 2015-01-28 (GMT). Potentially by end of the working day 2015-01-27. Ben OK, thus far everything seems to be looking pretty good. I'll give it another 24 hours of use and then say that this has, indeed, quashed the bug! Happy to confirm that I've had no ghost entries remaining in my task manager applet since the installation of those RPMs and a restart of KDE. Definitely a good fix. Hope to see it as an official errata soon. Thanks to both of you! Ben Ben, many thanks for your testing and veryfing the fix! and Bob, thanks for the the patch. One thing I have noticed since installing these RPMs is that the KDE Pager widget now doesn't highlight the desktop I'm on when I change from one to another with shortcut keys. It does if I click on the desktop I want to change to, but if I use keyboard shortcuts (currently using CTRL+arrow keys) it usually doesn't make the one I move to 'glow' any more. _Sometimes_ it'll move the 'glow' to another desktop if I move through a few, but it usually never stops on the desktop I've stopped on. This didn't happen until I installed your RPMs. OK, it appears that the behaviour I was seeing and mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027703#c19 (Comment 19) have stopped. I don't know what the issue was, but it has gone. (In reply to Ben from comment #20) > OK, it appears that the behaviour I was seeing and mentioned in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027703#c19 (Comment 19) have > stopped. I don't know what the issue was, but it has gone. Not seeing that problem here with the patch I posted, either. Based on the changes in the patch, I wouldn't think it could be related. Any chance you can make that visible to us plebs, please? https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1392893 says access denied. (In reply to Ben from comment #23) > Any chance you can make that visible to us plebs, please? > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1392893 says access denied. Not yet, its being worked on. This solution article is just a replay of the information found here or in the upstream ticking but no new information. Once completed I will make it viewable for customers. |