[ nedit-Bugs-1014288 ] context menu blanking
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Submitted By: Joor Loohuis (joor)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: context menu blanking
Initial Comment:
There used to be a conflict with screen blanking when
the user rightclicked in the edit pane, related to the
power saving settings of the X server. AFAIK a
workaround was added to cure this, and the context menu
is usable again. However, rightclicking on the tab bar
still blanks the screen.
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>Comment By: Joor Loohuis (joor)
Date: 2007-03-05 11:27
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Just checked, and rightclicking on the tab bar no longer blanks the screen
on an FC6 box:
NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004
Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Oct 1 2004, 15:55:40
With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
Locale: nl_NL.UTF-8
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Comment By: Eddy De Greef (edg)
Date: 2007-03-05 11:09
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Proof by lack of counterexample? Not exactly convincing, since the problem
is quite rare and usually not reproducable.
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Comment By: Thorsten Haude (yooden)
Date: 2007-03-05 01:29
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So do we assume that X.org fixed it for us?
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Comment By: Eddy De Greef (edg)
Date: 2006-02-06 10:13
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At work, I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux with XFree 4.3.0 and
I still see the blanking regularly (maybe once a week) when
I right-click on the tab bar. Sometimes it happens just
once, sometimes it only stops after right-clicking somewhere
else.
At home I use X.org and I don't think I've seen the problem
recently, but there I use NEdit much less intensively.
But it's indeed possible that the problem is fixed in X.org.
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Comment By: Thorsten Haude (yooden)
Date: 2006-02-06 09:46
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Did you use FC before? Maybe it's a transient problem with
FC or something XF86 -> X.org fixed.
Eddy, do you use FC?
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Comment By: Joor Loohuis (joor)
Date: 2006-02-06 07:55
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I can't reproduce the blanking anymore. DPMS is on and my
NEdit is not new:
NEdit release of Aug 20, 2004
Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Oct 6 2004, 11:39:53
With Motif: 2.2.3 [@(#)Motif Version 2.2.3]
Running Motif: 2.2 [unknown]
Server: The X.Org Foundation 60802000
Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
Locale: nl_NL.UTF-8
What has changed is that I use an up-to-date Fecora Core 4,
and the changes to X might have something to do with it. I
have no problems clicking on the content window or the tab bar.
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Comment By: Thorsten Haude (yooden)
Date: 2006-02-05 23:23
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Any news about on what configurations this blanks?
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Comment By: Eddy De Greef (edg)
Date: 2004-09-28 15:29
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I hadn't seen the blanking problem for over two years, but
strangely enough, one or two weeks ago, I ran into exactly
the same problem as Joor (using 5.5RC2). The screen blanked
only when I right-clicked on the tab bar. I didn't have time
to investigate it and the problem mysteriously disappeared a
few hours later. I hadn't changed anything in my
configuration and I was still running the same binary. I
haven't had any problems since.
I wouldn't hold 5.5 for this. IMO, it is not an NEdit bug
and I doubt that
we can do anything about it.
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Comment By: Nathan Gray (n8gray)
Date: 2004-09-27 23:22
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I don't have a RH 9 machine but I can't reproduce it on RH 7.3 with
XFree86 4.2.1 or FC 1 with Xorg 6.7.0.
Can people please comment on whether or not I should be holding back
5.5 for this bug? My inclination is to defer this to a possible 5.5.1
since
it hasn't been touched in a month, but I've had no feedback from the
NEdit community.
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Comment By: Eddy De Greef (edg)
Date: 2004-08-30 17:07
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I doubt that the changes in menu.c at r1.52 had anything to do
with it, especially since you can still reproduce the
blanking. Those changes were made to avoid that X would
loose track of which window had the focus after the bg menu
popped up in a weird state.
I have no idea of what is causing the blanking or which
changes may have affected it. AFAIK no-one has intentionally
made any changes to fix this.
Perhaps you can narrow it down by doing a binary search on
CVS versions of different dates?
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Comment By: Joor Loohuis (joor)
Date: 2004-08-26 08:12
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I'm not sure what exactly happened, but I could repeatedly
rightclick in the textpane without the screen blanking,
while rightclicking on the tab bar did blank the screen.
With a build of NEdit from CVS updated right now I again
have screen blanking in both cases when DPMS is turned on,
on Red Hat 9 (XFree 4.3.0, and OM 2.1.30 built from source,
statically compiled). Steps to reproduce are simple: 'xset +
dpms' results in screen blanking, 'xset -dpms' avoids it.
The problem basically is that even if DPMS has been turned
off, the screensaver will turn it back on when it kicks in.
I tested the same nedit binary on FC2 (X.org 6.7.0), and on
that there is no blanking, regardless what the status of
DPMS is.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2004-08-26 02:21
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I'm not sure the earlier problem the one fixed by Eddy's
changes to menu.c at r1.52. If it is, the tac context menu
popup action contain the same fix (or rather, does not
include the offensive code removed by Eddy in bgmenu popup
action).
Are you able to reproduce the bug reliably? which
distro/flavor of Linux & X are you using? The tab context
menu work was developed on Redhat 9.
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Comment By: Joor Loohuis (joor)
Date: 2004-08-23 13:46
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Sorry, I forgot:
NEdit release of jul 26, 2004
Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Jul 26 2004, 20:59:53
With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
Server: The XFree86 Project, Inc 40300000
Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
Locale: en_US
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