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Notification area appears at the center of the screen
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xfce4-panel
Component:
Notification Area

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Description Lionel Le Folgoc 2010-06-12 11:12:57 CEST
Hi,

With gtk+ 2.21, the panel notification area doesn't work correctly: each notification icon appears at the center of the screen instead, in its own small window, continuously flashing/flickering (they continuously appear and disappear from window list, thus 100% cpu…).

I don't know if it's regression in gtk+, or (as for ExoTreeView a few weeks ago) a "new behavior and we don't care if we broke something, gnome works fine", or a bug in the panel…

If you think it's not a bug in the panel, I'll file a bug against gtk+.

Thanks!

xfce4-panel: 4.6.4
gtk+: 2.21.[01] (works fine with gtk+ 2.20.x)
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-06-12 12:04:19 CEST
Looks like it. Will try it too when I'm home.
Comment 2 Lionel Le Folgoc 2010-06-13 09:08:00 CEST
Mmmh, I'm not sure, but I think ubuntu activated (or patched) the "client side window decoration" stuff in gtk 2.21. Maybe that's the cause of the bug.
Comment 3 Lionel Le Folgoc 2010-06-14 09:13:11 CEST
It seems it's related to that (and rgba support). If I start the panel with XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1, it works fine.
Comment 4 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-06-14 09:16:02 CEST
Yeah that is a possibility too, the tray can't embed rgba in a rgb window, this is fixed in 4.8, but won't make it into 4.6, since it requires a lot of code changes.

Bug #6501

Reported by:
Lionel Le Folgoc
Reported on: 2010-06-12
Last modified on: 2010-11-20

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Nick Schermer
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