Desktop freezes when I use the resize grip on a Gtk3 application

Joel Feiner jafeiner at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 17:53:47 PST 2011


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jeremy Henty <onepoint at starurchin.org>wrote:

>
> No suggestions?  :-(  Any help would be very welcome.
>
>
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is really a GTK3 problem and
that it's unfortunate that they haven't responded yet.  Perhaps you can bug
them again, or file a bug report on bugs.gnome.org.  If it turns out its an
upstream issue, then you can come back with the proper information.


> Jeremy Henty wrote:
> >
> > I have already emailed the Gtk list about this but have heard nothing
> > from them yet.  Perhaps you can give me some help.
> >
> > Gtk3 applications have a resize grip  at the bottom right.  If I click
> > on that grip then my desktop  instantly freezes.  When I kill the Gtk3
> > application everything returns to normal.  This happens on my standard
> > icewm desktop and  also with twm.  (I tried starting  X with no window
> > manager at all but then the mouse just disappears.  Not sure what I am
> > doing wrong there.)
> >
> > There is no problem with Gtk2 applications that have a resize grip.
> >
> > When the desktop  is frozen everything appears to be  idle (ie. 'S' in
> > the 'S' column in htop.)
> >
> > I'd really appreciate any tips for how to investigate this further.
> >
> > (Linux 2.6.37, Xorg 7.5, icewm 1.3.7)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jeremy Henty
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- Joel
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