Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 484204
Shadow missing top and bottom on windows with width>X
Last modified: 2009-12-18 02:49:02 EST
I am experiencing the same bug, as are others (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6140611). Screenshots: http://requesthelp.free.fr/ccsm_bug.png http://www.broadskies.net/testing/ubuntuforum/Screenshot.jpg It seems that the greater the shadow radius is set to, correspondingly the more narrow in width a window must be for the bug not to show up. Likewise, the lower the shadow radius is set, the wider the windows can be without the bug showing up. So, depending on what the shadow radius on the emerald theme is set to, the shadow at top and bottom of windows works just fine UNTIL the window is sized wide enough - then the bug appears. The smaller the shadow radius setting, the wider the windows can be before the bug appears. Likewise, the greater the shadow radius setting, the more narrow a window must be sized to prevent the bug. I would imagine then that many would not see the bug, depending on which emerald theme they may be using (with its shadow radius setting) , and depending perhaps on the width of their screen resolution. If they do not have a wide-screen, for example, their windows may never be sized wide enough to reveal the bug (depending of course, again, on what the shadow radius setting happens to be on the theme they are using). In the image I provide above, a few of the emerald theme settings are: Frame engine: pixmap (0.2) Shadows > Radius: 18.9
Hello there, Im trying to figure out why this bug happens, but it is clearly hard for me since I dont know really where to look. By the way, I noticed something which perhaps could help. I have two windows, one with width wide enough to make the top/bottom shadows disappear, and one which is fine to launch "emerald --replace" command line. When I launched emerald, I noticed that the top/bottom shadows are fine, and then they disappear suddenly. So, my point is that emerald (at launch) redraw the shadow 2 times at start, first time correctly and last time without top/bottom shadow. When resizing, the shadows don't seem to appear at anytime. Hope that helps, feel free to contact me if you want some help.
Ok, since it's an upstream bug and I'm not emerald upstream developer I'll see if this was reported if not I will forward your bug report to them.
It is reported: http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060 No more maintainer for emerald project.
If anyone can help me locating this bug, I will provide below two ltrace of "emerald --replace" command. The two ltrace are launched with the same environment, the only difference is the size of the window (ok=no_shadow_bug, ko=shadow_bug). If at least I can have a clue, perhaps it could be fixed easily :)
Created attachment 331220 [details] ltrace when no shadow bug on the window
Created attachment 331221 [details] ltrace when shadow bug on the window
Apparently, a patch exists and the git version of compiz is updated. Cant test it since I havent any rpm If you or anyone can build the git version, i will be glad to test it and close the bug !
I will try to get to this tomorrow. I'll do a build in koji and post a link for testing before pushing it to updates
Thank you, I will keep you informed, and if it is not fixed, I will get in touch again with some compiz devs.
dont forget me ;)
I didn't It's just that for the last 40 hours I've been in an office - working. I'll try to get to this as soon as I can.
No problem, just wanted to stay in touch about this, take your time pal !
any news ? :p
or not :)
I'm really sorry for the big delay. I forgot to inform you but I had the time to look at the bug some weeks ago and if I patch this it will be actually a higher version of emerald(excluding translations) so I decided to wait for the compiz maintainer to update compiz to 0.8.x which will happen after the 11 release. The branches are in place so it might be at zero-day in updates-testing or in f12 branch before that. And since it's somewhat low impact bug I decided to wait.
compiz 0.8.2 seems stable ! :]
Possible to have a rebuild targeted for f10 ? (compiz-0.8.2-3.fc12)
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