Unminimize / Repaint problem

[billstei]

Can anyone confirm/reproduce this (with Wine 0.9.58 and Gnome 2.20) ?

Start gnome terminal.
$ regedit
Click window Minimize button.
Repeatedly click Gnome taskbar button "Registry", and unminimized regedit window intermittently fails to paint.

I am getting similar repaint issues with various other programs too.

Bill

[L. Rahyen]

On Wednesday April 2 2008 00:59:36 billstei wrote:

Can anyone confirm/reproduce this (with Wine 0.9.58 and Gnome 2.20) ?

Start gnome terminal.
$ regedit
Click window Minimize button.
Repeatedly click Gnome taskbar button "Registry", and unminimized regedit
window intermittently fails to paint.

I am getting similar repaint issues with various other programs too.

Bill

In KDE everything works fine (in fact I'm using it for years and never seen
such problem). So I decided to try with GNOME and yes, I can
reproduce this issue. So this is GNOME-specific bug. Maybe this bug isn't
in WINE but in GNOME WM?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM, L. Rahyen <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wednesday April 2 2008 00:59:36 billstei wrote:

Can anyone confirm/reproduce this (with Wine 0.9.58 and Gnome 2.20) ?

Start gnome terminal.
$ regedit
Click window Minimize button.
Repeatedly click Gnome taskbar button "Registry", and unminimized regedit
window intermittently fails to paint.

I am getting similar repaint issues with various other programs too.

Bill

In KDE everything works fine (in fact I'm using it for years and never seen
such problem). So I decided to try with GNOME and yes, I can
reproduce this issue. So this is GNOME-specific bug. Maybe this bug isn't
in WINE but in GNOME WM?

Interesting.

I understand it's possibly to change Gnome's WM from metacity to some
other WM. Some folks on the Gentoo lists talk about doing it once in
awhile. I've never done it but maybe there's someone here who has a
background in that sort of thing and wants to try?

I do use Gnome but haven't tried verifying this report as of yet.
Given a bit of direction I could try changing the WM.

- Mark

[billstei]

Well at least now I know it's not unique to my setup here. As for Gnome I have not seen any native Linux apps exhibit this behavior, so it's probably a Wine issue.

Bill

[hellork]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM, L. Rahyen <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wednesday April 2 2008 00:59:36 billstei wrote:

Can anyone confirm/reproduce this (with Wine 0.9.58 and Gnome 2.20) ?

Start gnome terminal.
$ regedit
Click window Minimize button.
Repeatedly click Gnome taskbar button "Registry", and unminimized regedit
window intermittently fails to paint.

I am getting similar repaint issues with various other programs too.

Bill

In KDE everything works fine (in fact I'm using it for years and never seen
such problem). So I decided to try with GNOME and yes, I can
reproduce this issue. So this is GNOME-specific bug. Maybe this bug isn't
in WINE but in GNOME WM?

Interesting.

I understand it's possibly to change Gnome's WM from metacity to some
other WM. Some folks on the Gentoo lists talk about doing it once in
awhile. I've never done it but maybe there's someone here who has a
background in that sort of thing and wants to try?

I do use Gnome but haven't tried verifying this report as of yet.
Given a bit of direction I could try changing the WM.

- Mark

Confirmed: Metacity always fails to paint unminimized wine windows.

Compiz has not this problem, because windows are not really minimized in a classic sense, but instead are drawn into off-screen buffers, I think.

Gnome can run the default, metacity, or compiz. Use ps to find out which one you are running.

[foo]$ show metaci
2562 ? 00:00:01 metacity
[foo]$ which show
alias show='ps -A | grep -i'

[billstei]

This morning I am runnng Wine git (wine-0.9.58-473-g1eba09b) and I cannot reproduce the problem. Might be fixed.

Bill