Bug 52238

Summary:	Klock does not show some screensavers
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Sammy <umar>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Sammy 2001-08-21 20:47:26 UTC

Description of Problem:

For the latest kdebase-2.2-4 rpms when one chooses Bouboule
or Rock (or few others) for a screensaver then tries to lock the
screen no screensaver will show. Only the password box with
a frozen background will show instead.

For Polygon, Lines etc. everything works fine. None of the GL
savers work either.

ALL savers work/test correctly in the kscreensaver windows!!

This has been reported to KDE bugs as well by few people but
I noticed that they also used RedHat packages. Not clear whether
a packaging issue or a KDE bug.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kdebase-2.2-4

How Reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Bouboule from the kscreensaver menu
2. Try to lock the screen
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-08-22 22:12:16 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 11:33:38 UTC

KLock actually does the right thing and calls e.g. kbouboule.kss --root.

Running kbouboule.kss --root from a konsole or xterm doesn't work either.
This is definitely not a packaging problem; looks like the screensaver can't 
grab the root window for some reason.

Might be an X problem; debugging.

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 11:57:57 UTC

After some more debugging, I believe it's an X problem:
XSetForeground() , XFillRectangle() etc. don't seem to have any effect even 
though they're called on the correct (root) window.

Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 12:00:55 UTC

On another look, maybe it isn't after all - kdesktop seems to be showing on 
top of the screensaver (running the thing from a failsafe session (twm + 
xterm) works).

(Might still be an X problem though; I'm not sure how somewhat conflicting 
low-level X calls should be handled)

Comment 5 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 12:25:03 UTC

Submitted to KDE bug tracking system as 31663

Comment 6 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 13:57:43 UTC

Found it. The problem is that KDesktop is no longer drawing its background and 
icons on the root window itself - the screensavers are displayed under 
KDesktop.
The screensavers need to be displayed on KDesktop's window rather than the 
real root window.

Comment 7 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-29 14:38:35 UTC

Fixed in kdebase 2.2-9