[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#419354: xfwm4: moving or resizing a window "blocks" other windows

[Géraud Meyer]

Package: xfwm4
Version: 4.4.0-1
Severity: normal

With the xfwm4 options of not drawing the content of windows that are
being moved or resized activated, moving or resizing a window seems to
stop the other windows.

This is particularly noticeable for a sound player. For example if
`mplayer file.ogg' is started in xfce4-terminal and a window's wm bar is
grabbed by the mouse pointer without releasing the mouse button, then
the sound stops playing after a few seconds. If `mplayer file.ogg
>/dev/null' is started instead, the sound continues to play.

With the above mentioned options of xfwm4 disabled, the X programs are
not blocked. Since I do not know the details of X I do not know how to
collect useful information. Simply ask for more information if needed.

The same symptom is perhaps described in bug report #380639. However I
do not have compositing enabled in X.

Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'),
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfwm4 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.18.0-2       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.5-1          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.4.4-1        The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1.2      generic font configuration
library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.11-3      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.10.11-2      The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.3-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.14.8-5       Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.9-1          library for program launch
feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.3.1-2      X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1               1:1.1.8-2      X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.0.3-3      X11 damaged region
extension libra
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii  libxfce4mcs-client3       4.4.0-2        Client library for Xfce4
configure
ii  libxfce4mcs-manager3      4.4.0-2        Manager library for Xfce4
configur
ii  libxfce4util4             4.4.0-2        Utility functions library
for Xfce
ii  libxfcegui4-4             4.4.0-2        Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii  libxfixes3                1:4.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous 'fixes'
extensio
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.2-1      X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.1.0.2-5    X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.2-1      X Rendering Extension
client libra
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xfwm4 recommends:
ii  librsvg2-common               2.16.1-2   SAX-based renderer library
for SVG
ii  xfce4-mcs-manager             4.4.0-3    Settings manager for Xfce4
pn  xfwm4-themes                  <none>     (no description available)

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