On 12/31/2011 10:59 AM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Hi, > > This is more a matter of general curiosity than something I'm trying > actively to fix. I would, of course, like to correct the problems, but > they are not show-stoppers for me. If the behaviors I'm reporting can be > expected to be corrected at some point by future upgrades I'm content to > wait. > > If, however, I can contribute to development or bug-fixing efforts by > filing or contributing to bug reports I'd be happy to do so. It's just > that I'm clueless in this case as to the appropriate target for such a > report. > > I noticed that apt-listbugs flagged the new version of clutter to which > my systems were upgraded on 12/17/2011 as "breaking" mesa. The following > bug report was mentioned. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620908 > > That bug report, though, doesn't really seem to have much of anything to > do with the issues I've noticed in Xfce since that time. The issues I > see are: > > 1. Compositing in Xfce doesn't work properly. All windows and panels are > surrounded by large-width flat gray shadows, and transparency is broken. > With compositing turned off, everything looks normal for that state. > > 2. The Desktop applet in Xfce Settings Manager is unable to change the > desktop background. Instead, only the background selected by > update-alternatives is allowed. Furthermore, choosing "none" doesn't > remove that background image. > > 3. Right-clicking the desktop doesn't activate Xfce's menu system any > more -- but this failure is something I've seen only on some of my > testing installations, not all of them. > > It may be that I don't run many or any applications or drivers that make > use of clutter and mesa in such a way as to cause the types of failures > mentioned in the bug report. I have seen the > > failed to create drawable > > error on occasion in a terminal when starting some Mozilla apps > (iceweasel, icedove, iceowl -- IIRC), but that's about the only obvious > thing (to me, a relative beginner in GNU/Linux) my experience shares > with the bug report. > > Would anyone have general comments on this matter that might guide me to > some type of understanding? Are these issues I'm seeing connected to > that bug report? > > I started to just report this to the xfce-b...@xfce.org, x...@xfce.org, > or pkg-xfce-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, but thought that it obviously > involves non-xfce packages and might be peculiar to Debian testing / > unstable, so that I should try here first. > > Thanks for any information you might provide. > > Regards, > Gilbert > > Oh, good grief! Never mind the noise. I posted in the Xfce community and a kind user there (Forester) reminded me that this was probably just corruption of the xfce session. Everything is working now.
At least I was smart (???) enough to doubt that this really had anything to do with the clutter / mesa issue. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to remember that Xfce seems to get its sessions boggled once-in-a-while by upgrades. Doh! Again, sorry for the noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f030bff.8080...@comcast.net
