Bug 915202

Summary:	X-sandboxes are not resizeable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Marian Csontos <mcsontos>
Component:	xorg-x11-server	Assignee:	Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.4	CC:	csieh, dwalsh, jcpunk, lnovich, michele, mihai, mishu, mmalik, peter.hutterer, sradvan, tlavigne, tpelka
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	xorg-x11-server-1.13.0-14.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Upstream accepted a patch to make Xephyr resizable, but did not enable resizability by default. Consequence: X sandboxes were not resizable after RHEL 6.3. Fix: Change default in the code. Result: X sandboxes are resizable again.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	962572 1100349 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-11-21 11:28:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	883516, 1100349

Description Marian Csontos 2013-02-25 08:38:34 UTC

Description of problem:
Since update to RHEL6.4 GUI sandboxes (`sandbox -X`) are not resizeable.
This used to work perfectly on RHEL6.3.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.30.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.13.0-11.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sandbox -X firefox
2. try resizing sandbox
  
Actual results:
Sandbox can not be resized

Expected results:
Sandbox can be resized

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2013-02-26 21:41:42 UTC

Did the Xephyr Resize patch get removed?

Comment 3 Marian Csontos 2013-02-27 09:06:58 UTC

Short answer is yes, it got. Commit 1dee54d04.

Among other things this really breaks things in tiling window managers.
Also saved firefox sessions from RHEL6.3 are broken: firefox is using larger window than Xephyr.

Would it be possible getting it back in z-stream?

Comment 4 Marian Csontos 2013-02-27 09:26:07 UTC

And the workaround for broken firefox session is to search for /"width":/ and /"height":/ in profile's sessionstore.js (~/.mozilla/firefox/s0m3jVnK.default/sessionstore.js) and hand edit the numbers.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2013-03-03 06:48:47 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 Peter Hutterer 2013-05-13 03:52:04 UTC

Patch was removed from RHEL server because it got merged upstream as xorg-server-1.12.99.903-3-g8843aed. However, the upstream patch has two hunks different than the one we used to ship. Specifically, the resize option is now only enabled if win_pre_existing is != None whereas the previous patch had this unconditionally.

Best option here is probably to cherry-pick "ephyr: Add -resizeable option" (xorg-server-1.13.99.902-23-g3aac7a5) and set EphyrWantResize to 1 by default. This should emulate the behaviour of RHEL 6.3.

Comment 7 Daniel Walsh 2013-05-13 16:53:26 UTC

Can we get the same option turned on in Fedora also?

Comment 13 Adam Jackson 2013-07-11 17:45:59 UTC

6024831 build (rhel-6.5-candidate, /rpms/xorg-x11-server:345a60edaa195ad3a44ff9818bbae0e1282e4895) completed successfully

MODIFIED

Comment 15 Michele Baldessari 2013-09-17 08:11:56 UTC

*** Bug 1006456 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 11:28:54 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1620.html