Bug#839104: extremetuxracer takes the focus but no windows is displayed but sound is played => impossible to switch to other applications, impossible to close extremetuxracer

Thu Oct 27 10:28:05 UTC 2016

Control: reassign -1 libsfml-window2.4 2.4.0+dfsg-2
Control: affects -1 src:extremetuxracer
Control: retitle -1 libsfml-window2.4: unusable applications after XCB conversion
Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream

Hi,

On 27/10/16 05:56, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On 19 October 2016 at 22:08, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
>> On 19.10.2016 15:43, Isaac To wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:59:47 +0200 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org
>>> <mailto:apo at debian.org>> wrote:
>>>> On 29.09.2016 14:52, gpe wrote:
>>>>> I'm using gnome and a NVIDIA vidÃ©o card with NVIDIA drivers.
>>>>
>>>> I'm also using GNOME but with an ATI video card and free drivers. What
>>>> happens if you use the free nouveau drivers?
>>>
>>> I just want to share that I see exactly the same problem: a window shows
>>> up, immediately get deleted, and this repeats after a very short while.
>>> My lspci shows the following:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> thanks for your additional information but unfortunately I don't know
>> how to interpret your strace output. I find it still unlikely that
>> extremetuxracer is the root cause because the game (or the packaging)
>> has not changed in months. It is rather related to your video card
>> driver, the X server, SDL or window manager.
> 
>  Even my own build I last used a couple of months ago has broken this
> way. I suspect it was broken either SFML (etr no longer uses SDL) or
> gdm updates.

This reminded me of this bug in SFML which fixes a lot of glitches:
https://github.com/SFML/SFML/pull/1138

Sure enough, applying that fixes extremetuxracer. SFML is planning a
new release very soon (in fact I'm probably responsible for relaying it
a few days). Hopefully this will be fixed fairly soon.

New 2.4.1 release:
https://github.com/SFML/SFML/pull/1164

Thanks,
James

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