Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:51:48 +0300 From: "Vladimir Chukharev" <chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: xterm in gnome Message-ID: <opsck5kmxrsh9hi4@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi>
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Can anybody confirm that gnome cannot close xterm on another (not active) workplace? But better tell me where I am wrong and how to correct this! I use gnome, metacity, 4 workplaces. I start xterm (not gnome-terminal), then change to another workplace (e.g. by pressing ctrl+alt+rightArrow), and here I try to logout (via menu). Press OK on usual logout window. But gnome does not finish working till I change to the workplace, where the xterm is runing, in which case the logout is doing its job normally... This should be considered as a security issue, IMHO. If user is used to a fast closing of gnome and just goes away after pressing OK, he can be suprised to find later gnome still working for everybody passing by. At least I found the issue exactly this way, fortunately at home. Well, to be correct, most programs do not really work, they do not allow typing or clicking operations, only scrolling, but some are fully functional, notably xterm (if you have two running in different workplaces copies). This is not specific to metacity or XFree86-4.4. With a few previous versions of XFree86 and with couple different window managers under gnome similar thing happens - just not that repeatable. And sometimes (rearly) similar thing happens under icewm, if a program written for gnome was started. Well, I did not use icewm for months now, so I'm not sure about it... Yes, I upgraded gnome with the script recommended in UPDATING. About a month ago I deleted all XFree86, tried to install Xorg, failed and installed XFree86 again. It did not change the described behavior. $ uname -a FreeBSD svak.h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Wed Aug 4 23:05:54 EEST 2004 root@svak.h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SVAK i386 Any ideas? What else can I check? Best regards, -- V.Chukharev
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