Xfce (4.2-RC3) and Xnest (xorg-6.8.1): broken resizing of windows

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Jan 7 16:38:59 CET 2005


On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:31:02AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:44:36PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> >>So I guess, testing Xfce with Xnest has brought some hidden bugs
> >>to the surface. Any idea what's wrong?
> > 
> > Well, the question is, bugs in what? ;-) Probably Xnest, possibly
> > gtk, but most likely not Xfce. Xfce does not control redrawing.
> > Could be a composite problem (it seems that this can happen even
> > when the extension is disabled or non-functional as in Xnest).
> 
> Twm works, Xfce doesn't. Could that give a hint?
> 

Not really, I think. Maybe Olivier knows.

> I'm neither an X11 expert, nor a gtk-guru. 

Nor am I.

> All I observe, is that
> Xfce is pretty useless with Xnest, at least on my FreeBSD system.
> And that's a pity.
> 

Yeah, it did work fine for me, last time I tried. Does changing move/resize
settings help (opaque/non-opaque)?

	Jasper



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