Bug 700112

Summary:	x11-misc/xsnow-1.42-r2 - xsnow fails to erase its drawings
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rick Jenkins <rick>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rick Jenkins 2019-11-14 19:58:00 UTC

Xsnow cumulatively draws a trail of snowflakes, santas etc rather than undrawing the old and drawing the new in a new position.

 emerge --info
Portage 2.3.76 (python 3.6.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop, gcc-9.2.0, glibc-2.30-r2, 5.3.10-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-5.3.10-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8500_@_3.16GHz-with-gentoo-2.6
KiB Mem:     3956384 total,    352540 free
KiB Swap:    4194300 total,   4193788 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:30:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: db74f88f33b15f479b0b03dedbd080a63fc95d8b
sh bash 4.4_p23-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1
distcc 3.3.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.7.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p23-r1::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r4::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.28.2-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.16::gentoo, 3.5.5::gentoo, 3.6.9::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:          3.7.4::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.14.6::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.41.2::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.18::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.13.4-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.29.1-r1::gentoo, 2.30-r4::gentoo, 2.31.1-r6::gentoo, 2.32-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            6.4.0-r1::gentoo, 7.3.0-r3::gentoo, 8.2.0-r6::gentoo, 8.3.0-r1::gentoo, 9.2.0-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     2.0::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r4::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.19::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.30-r2::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1

localrepo
    location: /var/db/repos/localrepo
    masters: gentoo

x-portage
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php7.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php7.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs clean-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gossamerhost.com ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hpcups iconv icu ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify libtirpc mad mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer multilib ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf php pie png policykit postgres ppds pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 qt5 readline sdl seccomp snmp spell split-usr sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora tiff tk truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation perl proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias slotmem_shm authn_core authz_core unixd socache_shmcb lbmethod_bybusyness xml2enc cgid" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-2" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24 ruby25" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r600 intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-11-14 21:13:04 UTC

Seems to work fine for me.

Comment 2 Rick Jenkins 2019-11-14 21:42:13 UTC

Odd. I have an up-to-date and mostly stable system. Xsnow has worked in the past. There must be some critical difference in our systems.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-09-04 12:43:58 UTC

There is a new GTK+3 based version 3.0.7 now. Perhaps you can see if that fixes the problem for you.

Comment 4 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2020-11-26 19:45:21 UTC

please test with 3.0.7

Comment 5 Rick Jenkins 2020-11-26 20:17:20 UTC

My apologies, I forgot to post the test results.

3.0.7 does not work at all.

Invoking xsnow from a terminal window, the text message is:

Xsnow-3.0.7
December 14th 2001 by Rick Jansen 
February 2020 by Willem Vermin
Detected desktop session: xfce
Your screen does not support transparency.
Scenario: Use X11 for drawing snow in root window, no birds are possible.
Snowing in window: 0x6c1 - "Xsnow-A" - depth: 24 - geom: 0 0 3840x1080 - alpha: 0 - exposures: 0

A "welcome" box appears on all screens, and allows changes to settings. It asserts that "If everything is OK, it is now snowing on your desktop"

No snow, Santa, birds or anything else appears.

Comment 6 Rick Jenkins 2020-12-16 21:04:38 UTC

I have just tried version 3.1.8 directly from source, and it works correctly in XFCE provided that the "Erase Method" is set to "Use exposures" in the "Settings" tab of the control panel.