Bug 1028157 - KDE saved session does NOT record xosview settings "+cpus -int"
Summary: KDE saved session does NOT record xosview settings "+cpus -int"
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kde-workspace
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-07 19:17 UTC by George R. Goffe
Modified: 2018-06-07 14:18 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-06-07 14:18:49 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description George R. Goffe 2013-11-07 19:17:32 UTC
Description of problem:

Session saving with configuring xosview with +cpus and -int and setting "on all desktops" (8 in my case) fails to save the xosview settings.

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

basesystem-10.0-8.fc19.noarch

How reproducible:

Happens all the tim.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter "xosview +cpus -int"
2.set to occupy "all desktops"
3.save the session
4.exit the current session
5.start a new session
6.all known (to me) settings appear to have been saved but xosview reverts to unmodified settings

Actual results:

see description above.

Expected results:

see description above.

Additional info:

xosview-1.15-1.fc19.x86_64

Comment 1 Lukáš Tinkl 2013-11-07 19:28:56 UTC
It's rather the other way round, xosview fails to save its state upon session saving.

Comment 2 Terje Røsten 2013-11-07 19:44:23 UTC
How is this supposed to work? 

xosview don't have any state as such.

xosview is using X RESOURCES to set default options.

To set +cpus -int, use:

echo "xosview*cpuFormat: all" >> ~/.Xdefaults
echo "xosview*int: False" >> ~/.Xdefaults

xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults

Then start:

xosview

Comment 3 Lukáš Tinkl 2013-11-07 19:48:56 UTC
It's all described here:

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libSM/SMlib.html

Comment 4 Terje Røsten 2013-11-07 20:05:07 UTC
Thanks for link, this is out of scope.

George R. Goffe, please contact xosview upstream here: 

 https://github.com/hills/xosview

if you want this fixed.

In Fedora context I am setting won't fix, sorry.

Comment 5 George R. Goffe 2013-11-08 05:08:08 UTC
Guys,

Are you telling me that RedHat will no longer pursue bugs with Fedora distributions? I'm looking for a general rule here. You put the packages together but when they break, I'm on my own? Sometimes, RedHat makes code changes, are they supported?

Thanks,

George...

Comment 6 Terje Røsten 2013-11-08 06:08:22 UTC
Sorry, I can't answer anything about Red Hat, Fedora is a community driven project. I think reading the FAQ will help you understand how things work:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ

Comment 7 Kevin Kofler 2013-11-12 23:08:13 UTC
The thing is, what you reported is not a bug at all, you're requesting a new feature. Such requests are best sent directly to the upstream developers.

Comment 8 George R. Goffe 2013-11-14 07:57:20 UTC
Kevin,

My point is that this used to work with fedora 16 x86_64 and it's related KDE. Now it does NOT.

Regards,

George...

Comment 9 George R. Goffe 2013-12-15 18:18:37 UTC
Kevin,

I just sent this email to Mark, current(?) owner/maintainer for xosview. Can re-open this one please?

Please accept my apologies for not getting back to you sooner about this.

I have a freshly installed and updated Fedora 16 x86_64 system and a version of xosview installed therein. Testing shows that the KDE on that system and the xosview on that system does remember it's invocation parameters AND it's desktop placement (i.e. 1) where in the display it's located at "save session" time AND 2) it's multiple desktop presence settings).

The source rpm for this xosview can be procured at: http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/16/SRPMS/xosview-1.12-1.fc16.src.rpm.

So. It appears that either this is a KDE regression or bug and/or an xosview regression and/or bug.

I think that the Fedora people sometimes modify "normal" code for various reasons and make those changes available to Fedora systems. I would hope that they also contact the author(s) and/or maintainer(s) so that their changes can be incorporated in the mainstream of the package(s) they are modifying.

Do you need anything else from me?

Regards,

George...

Comment 10 George R. Goffe 2013-12-15 21:16:42 UTC
I have some "latest" and GREATEST testing news...

I got the git version of xosview built it on a test FC 16 as xosview.git and ran it with "+cpus and -int", moved it elsewhere on the desktop, turned on "all desktops" and saved the session.

When I restarted the desktop... xosview.git was EXACTLY where I placed it and had retained the "all desktops" setting and had remembered the # of cpus too.

What this testing tells me is that there's a regression in KDE session saving.

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Comment 12 Than Ngo 2018-06-07 14:18:49 UTC
please try latest in f28 if it works for you. Feel free to reopen it if the issue still shows up.

thanks


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