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getting "BadMatch" errors from seamless RDP when it tries to restack windows
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Description Dan Schirato 2007-08-03 18:22:35 CEST
I am using seamless RDP to integrate MSWindows apps running in a VMWare instance 
into my desktop.  The xfce4 window manager is having a rough time with focus when 
I start more than one Windows app.  I think it all comes back to this error message that I am getting out of rdesktop:

Got "BadMatch" when trying to restack windows.
This is most likely caused by a broken window manager (commonly KWin).
Got "BadMatch" when trying to restack windows.
This is most likely caused by a broken window manager (commonly KWin).

I'm not sure what all information you'd like to have so I'll toss up everything that I can.

schirato@schirato-t60 ~ $ uname -a      
Linux schirato-t60 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 24 16:20:11 EDT 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

schirato@schirato-t60 ~ $ X -version

X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux schirato-t60 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 24 16:20:11 EDT 2007 x86_64
Build Date: 23 April 2007
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

schirato@schirato-t60 ~ $ equery l xfce4
[ Searching for package 'xfce4' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [ ~] xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.4.1-r1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-appfinder-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-battery-0.5.0-r2 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-0.8.0 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-cpu-freq-0.0.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-cpugraph-0.3.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-datetime-0.5.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-dev-tools-4.4.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-dict-0.2.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-diskperf-2.1.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-fsguard-0.3.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-genmon-3.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-mailwatch-1.0.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-0.5.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-netload-0.4.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-notes-1.4.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-places-0.3.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-quicklauncher-1.9.2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter-1.0.0-r1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-smartbookmark-0.4.2 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-0.4.2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-taskmanager-0.3.2-r1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-time-out-0.1.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-timer-0.5.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-wavelan-0.5.4 (0)
[I--] [ ~] xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-0.6.0-r1 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-xfapplet-0.1.0 (0)
[I--] [  ] xfce-extra/xfce4-xkb-0.4.3-r1 (0)


schirato@schirato-t60 ~ $ xfwm4 --version
        This is xfwm4 version 4.4.1 (revision 25451) for Xfce 4.4.1
        Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
        Compiled against GTK+-2.10.11, using GTK+-2.10.14.

        Build configuration and supported features:
        - Startup notification support:                 Yes
        - XSync support:                                Yes
        - Render support:                               Yes
        - Xrandr support:                               Yes
        - Embedded compositor:                          Yes
        - KDE systray proxy (deprecated):               No
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-08-10 17:59:18 CEST
I have no idea of what app you are talking about. Is that open source, can we examine the source, where can we download source?
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-08-10 18:04:45 CEST
BTW BadMatch means the application is trying to do something wrong, it is not the window manager fault (beside the message)
Comment 3 Dan Schirato 2007-08-13 13:03:57 CEST
Yes - this software is open source.  The main site is http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/  I am guessing that the code you really want to look at is in the rdesktop client though which is available from http://www.rdesktop.org

Metacity does not have the same problem as xfwm4.  Perhaps they have added some functionality that the application is expecting to be there?  I'm not sure.
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-09-07 22:23:01 CEST
I have installed WinXP Pro (expires in 6 days) in vmware with seamlessrdp but I cannot reproduce such a bug.

Seamlessrdp doesn't seem to work very well, as I hardly can start more than 1 app at a time, but using notepad+winhelp (2 windows) restacking work fine here.

What is your config?

Bug #3430

Reported by:
Dan Schirato
Reported on: 2007-08-03
Last modified on: 2020-05-21

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