On amd64 platforms, QT applications popup windows often appear outside the screen, making the applications unusable. The windows are listed in the Alt-tab list, but are not reachable. Discussion on this problem and a fix are available here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.devel/749 The patch provided works well with latest ebuild x11-wm/windowmaker-0.91.0-r2, and solved the problem for me (I don't know of side effects for other platforms though). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge windowmaker and QT apps like licq or k3b 2. Run the app with windowmaker 3. Try to open options window Actual Results: The window appears off-screen (is listed in Alt-Tab, but cannot be reached) Expected Results: The window appears on screen ;) Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 24 2005, 11:01:46)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.4, 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR@euro" LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdb cdr crypt cups curl curlwrappers dga dio doc dvb dvd dvdr emacs encode esd exif f77 fam fastcgi fftw flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftb gb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml ick imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java joystick jp2 jpeg junit kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mbox mikmod mime mng motif mozilla mpeg msn multilib nas ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl php png posix python qt quicktime readline recode samba scanner sdl shared sharedmem simplexml slang snmp sockets socks5 speex spell ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 52532 [details, diff] Patch from wm-dev mailing list
patch added to windowmaker-0.91.0-r3; bug fixed.
I'm reopening this bug, since the fix was not included in the 0.92 release (while the other amd64 fixes from the gentoo 0.91 patch did get corrected). So windowmaker-0.92.0-r1 has the same behavior as described before. Applying the patch returned licq & k3b to a usable state The gmane archive for the wm-dev mailing looks down, so I do not know why this was not included in the new release
The patch also fixes my issues with OpenOffice.org which makes all menus "left aligned". Acts as if theres no space to open the menus on the right side (like when a menu hits the right border of the screen and tries to open it on the left side instead to prevent it from appearing outside the visible area)
Ah I was beginning to wonder if I was the last windowmaker-amd64 user on gentoo ;) Looks like some debian users also still have the problem on wm-devel, maybe next release will have the patch included
Created attachment 70796 [details, diff] 0.92 version of the patch I've just ported 64bit+endian from 0.91 to 0.92 64bit part seems to be working good, but can't be sure about endian part
btw it solves firefox, thunderbird with gtk-2.6.8 starting problems
I switched to gcc4 yesterday, and windowmaker with this patch added re-emerged fine (I had removed the tweaked ebuild from my overlay, but I quickly saw the missing patch when trying to burn a backup dvd with k3b ;) ).
this patch is on the latest 0.92 revision.
Which revision? 0.92.0-r1 has the epatch line but it's commented, and 0.92.0-r2 does not have any corresponding lines
