From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14smp i686) When I click the right mouse button in a program that uses openmotif such as nedit-5.1.1-4.i386.rpm the screen blanks. When I then move the pointer a little bit the screen comes back up again and I can see the menu wich is supposed to be there and use it. This only happens with the sawfish window manager and not with others (like enlightenment). Some info: -RedHat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.17-14smp -librep-0.13.3-1.i386.rpm -rep-gtk-0.15-3.i386.rpm -rep-gtk-gnome-0.15-3.i386.rpm -rep-gtk-libglade-0.15-3.i386.rpm -sawfish-0.36-5.i386.rpm -sawfish-themer-0.36-5.i386.rpm Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open nedit 2. click right mouse button 3. Actual Results: screen blanks Expected Results: show the menu under the right mouse button
Works fine for me, what do you mean "the screen blanks"? Is your entire monitor black? Or just nedit? Maybe an X bug...
The entire monitor is black, but as I said before it comes back up again as I move the pointer when holding the right mouse button. It happens with both a nvidia TNT2 and with a Matrox Millenium II graphical adapter.
Mike have you ever heard of this? I see no way Sawfish could cause this without an X bug...
Yes, I have heard of something at least similar, and it is likely a Motif app too. I'll hunt it down... Bug #46645 sounds very similar. Check it out and let me know what you think. If it sounds like an X bug to you, which it does sound like to me possibly, then reassign to X. TO original poster, can you please attach to the bug report using the link below a copy of your X server log? From after a crash/hang/blankout if possible, if not just a running log.
I think this is a lot more likely to be an X bug than a sawfish bug, so moving to X.
Created attachment 23807 [details] Here's a running log (The X-server never crashes after a blank screen).
This seems to be fixed now in rawhide XFree86 4.2.0.