Strange bug involving anjuta and dragging windows between workspaces

Bob Snyder bob.snyder at cox.net
Sun Nov 20 01:48:12 CET 2005


Alexander Toresson wrote:

>On 11/10/05, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 11/10/05, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:34 +0100, Alexander Toresson wrote:
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>>>>I just experienced the following:
>>>>
>>>>I was dragging anjuta from workspace 8 to workspace 2 using the
>>>>graphical pager. When I dropped the window on workspace 2, I noticed
>>>>that the window didn't appear on workspace 2 and that it wasn't on
>>>>workspace 8 anymore. I first thought that it may have segfaulted, but
>>>>then ps aux|grep anjuta revealed that it was still running. I began
>>>>searching all my workspaces, but it was nowhere to find.
>>>>
>>>>I have no idea where this bug could be, and I'm posting it here
>>>>because it was directly or indirectly related to what I did in the
>>>>graphical pager.
>>>>
>>>>I guess I'll have to kill anjuta and restart it.
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>>>Is it reproducible?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Olivier.
>>>
>>>
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>>No. It has just happened once.
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>I just experienced this again. I was dragging X-Chat from workspace 6
>to workspace 3, and it just disappeared. It's still running, but it's
>nowhere to find.
>This is with an 8 days old xfce from svn, which I just updated to the
>latest xfce from svn, but haven't restarted it yet.
>
>And you know what? I just reproduced it.
>This is what you need to do:
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>1. Have a window open on a workspace that ain't the current workspace.
>2. Kill xfwm4
>3. Start xfwm4
>4. Move the window you kept open to another workspace, but not to the
>current workspace.
>5. See it disappear
>
>Regards, Alexander Toresson
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>

Works for me too. I'm running 4.2.0 so it's been there for a while.

Bob S.





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