From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76C-CCK-MCD Netscape [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: It appears that ANY application that draws to the "root" window does not work with nautilus since nautilus hides the root window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Everything install of Roswell2 2. login 3. start XSnow, Xfishtank, Xearth, etc Actual Results: nothing shows up Expected Results: snow, fish, earth? Additional info: if you remove nautilus (from the session manager) the root window is brought back to the front, making the snow/fish/whatever visable again.
Well, if I maximize mozilla I can't see the root window either. It's not really a bug; just that xsnow relies on the root window being visible. The root window isn't necessarily. We could somehow make the Nautilus window ID available to xsnow, but xsnow also relies on another not-guaranteed-to-be-true thing: no one but xsnow is handling root window drawing. This would not be true for the Nautilus window. So, root window hacks are dead when using Nautilus. They have to be done as Nautilus features. Someone could maybe add a feature to Nautilus to let them be done as dynamic Nautilus modules or something. Anyhow, I have no idea how to fix this so that xsnow works, though I could imagine adding an xsnow-like feature to Nautilus, I can't tell you how low on the priority queue that is. ;-) We are taking patches basically.
Subject: Re: is this a bug? Date: 04 Sep 2001 18:23:08 -0400 From: teg (Trond Eivind Glomsrxd) Reply-To: roswell-list Organization: Red Hat, Inc. To: roswell-list References: 1 Tommy McNeely <Tommy.McNeely> writes: > when nautilus is on, xsnow doesnt work. > > I think its cause nautilus hides the "root" display, that xsnow is > drawing on... it also affects xfishtank (although that did not make it > from powertools to the distro :( ) That's a bug - please put it in bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla) -- Trond Eivind Glomsrxd Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Roswell-list mailing list Roswell-list https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/roswell-list
[FOOT] -> Programs -> Games -> xsnow I am not just pulling this out of my "ear" ... this is part of the distro. I would suggest removing xsnow if nautilus is going to be enabled by default.... IS there a reason WHY nautilus hides/covers the root window. It seems to cause lots of other problems (thumbs through other bug reports).. I will point out that it was filed as LOW priority. Tommy
Changing category to XSNOW and RFE
*** Bug 52132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 53194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So far all the bug reports blame nautilus. The problem isn't nautilus. Xsnow doesn't work with KDE either.
It's fixed in 1.42-1. On KDE-2.2.1+ you must enable the Support Programs in Desktop Window option under Control Center -> Look & Feel -> Desktop.
Where can I find 1.42-1? It's not in rawhide or in updates....
You find it on ftp://people.redhat.com/than/7.2