-EXT-Re: support question regarding X11 1.20.1

Greenamyer, Shaun Shaun.Greenamyer at ga-asi.com
Tue Jun 25 13:51:58 UTC 2019


Thank you very much for getting back to me.
You are spot on... That is exactly what I am seeing. Just one more thing I found Red Hat has broken.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 4:30 PM
To: Greenamyer, Shaun <Shaun.Greenamyer at ga-asi.com>; xorg at freedesktop.org
Subject: -EXT-Re: support question regarding X11 1.20.1

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On 6/19/19 2:10 PM, Greenamyer, Shaun wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I hope this message isn't an annoyance but I'm not sure the best place 
> to turn right now.
>
> I am having an issue with my X windows not getting "erased" when the 
> window is closed. I'm probably not explaining well which is why my 
> google searches have been empty. Basically I am running MWM as my 
> window manager and opening an Xterm then exiting the xterm, after this 
> the xterm window is still displayed but does not respond. I checked 
> xwininfo and I see no reference to the window that I closed so I feel like the
> window was destroyed.   Another interesting observation is that if I
> take another good window and drag it over the bad window, the good 
> window will slide under the bad window. Its very strange.  Lastly I 
> have the NVIDIA driver installed (430.26) and this issue only happens 
> when the COMPOSITE extension is disabled.

Are you using a Red Hat build of the X server, and do you have workstation overlays enabled, by any chance?

The symptoms sound like this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683853

-- Aaron


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