FVWM: image overlays white widgets - bug or ..

[O***@uninett.no]

Hi,

I see a strange phenomena/bug where a previous no-present image shines
through widgets with white background . It is at a fixed area of the
screen regardless of virtual window. The image blends with the foreground.
The application that showed the image is not running and is not known.
The image shows on a monochrome root display backround like white or
black but does not show when the backround is an image loaded by display.

It does not show on xwd of the window and only if the window is on top.
'xterm -bg white' shows it where 'xterm -bg grey' downs not show the
picture.

I am not really suspecting fvwm, but here is some expertise on X and
windowmanmagers..

I run gnome-session/gnome-panel with fvwm 2.5.28 as a the window
manager in Ubuntu 10.10. nautilus is not running.
Xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3.

regards
Olav

[Thomas Adam]

Post by O***@uninett.no
Hi,
I see a strange phenomena/bug where a previous no-present image shines
through widgets with white background . It is at a fixed area of the
screen regardless of virtual window. The image blends with the foreground.

My first guess is it is probably nothing to do with FVWM at all. But your
description is cryptic and doesn't give me much to go on. Can you be more
specific?

Post by O***@uninett.no
I am not really suspecting fvwm, but here is some expertise on X and
windowmanmagers..

We're not a generic X11 mailing list. Does this problem exist in other
window managers?

-- Thomas Adam

[O***@uninett.no]

Hello,

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by O***@uninett.no
Hi,
I see a strange phenomena/bug where a previous no-present image shines
through widgets with white background . It is at a fixed area of the
screen regardless of virtual window. The image blends with the foreground.

My first guess is it is probably nothing to do with FVWM at all. But your
description is cryptic and doesn't give me much to go on. Can you be more
specific?

The image did not show up on xwd.
Nor did I find any window with the actual coordinates with xlsclients|
xwininfo.
It shows up in the background if I drag a window like 'xterm -bg white'
past the area but now with xterm -bg blue.

It shows on the background with 'xsetroot -bg any-color',
wheras 'display -window 0 picture.png' hides the image.

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by O***@uninett.no
I am not really suspecting fvwm, but here is some expertise on X and
windowmanmagers..

We're not a generic X11 mailing list. Does this problem exist in other
window managers?

yes also in Metacity - so thank you for your kind didactic help :-)

A colleage had seen similar problems connected to DRI, so
I am now installing the newest Nividia X driver..

best regards
Olav Kvittem

Post by Thomas Adam
-- Thomas Adam