Bug 54568

Summary:	Root window bug on multihead display
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mark H Johnson <mark_h_johnson>
Component:	xloadimage	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Mark H Johnson 2001-10-12 16:40:31 UTC

Description of Problem:
We have a current system with three displays - a different background
image on each display. We are replacing it with a Linux PC using
Xinerama mode in XFree86. However the image that appears on the Linux
displays is incorrect. Instead of three different images, we get the
image on "display 0" repeated on all three displays.

Not sure this is an xloadimage problem or a problem with the
window manager or XFree86 server.

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


How Reproducible:
Our current system has three files,
 station.gif
 modlogo.gif
 dtlogo.gif
which are loaded with the following command line...
xloadimage -onroot -at 1280,1 -gamma .75 -border black \
 -yzoom 102 station.gif -merge -onroot -at 2684,53 \
 modlogo.gif -merge -onroot -at 108,35 dtlogo.gif
The DT logo appears on the left, station on the center, and MOD logo
on the right for the current system. On the Linux PC,
the picture in "modlogo.gif" appears on all three displays.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a multihead system with Xinerama enabled.
2. Pick a different image per display & run an xloadimage command
similar to that above.
3. View the results

Actual Results:
The image located in the "upper left" of the composite display is
repeated on all displays.

Expected Results:
A different image appears on each display per the command line.

Additional Information:
For reference, the system we are using reports a display size of
3840x1024. [3 side by side 1280x1024 displays, 24 bit color]

The messages from xloadimage were...
station.gif is a 1280x1024 GIF image with 128 colors
 Compressing color map...89 unique colors
 Zooming Y axis by 102%...done
 Adjusting colormap for display gamma 0.75...done
 Merging...done
modlogo.gif is a 1006x904 GIF image with 128 colors
 Compressing color map...no improvement
 Zooming Y axis by 102%...done
 Adjusting colormap for display gamma 0.75...done
 Merging...done
dtlogo.gif is a 1024x939 GIF image with 128 colors
 Compressing color map...no improvement
 Zooming Y axis by 102%...done
 Adjusting colormap for display gamma 0.75...done
 Merging...done
building XImage...done

Comment 1 Mark H Johnson 2001-10-12 16:42:32 UTC

Oops. A slight mistake. Under "how reproducable", the dtlogo.gif appears
on all three displays.

Comment 2 Mark H Johnson 2002-04-05 16:28:25 UTC

We tried again with "skipjack" - the root display is created as expected.

Please close.