[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#483070: Bug#483070: xfdesktop4: black screen after openarena quits

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon May 26 21:27:32 UTC 2008


On lun, 2008-05-26 at 22:48 +0200, Jeremy Lal wrote:
> Package: xfdesktop4
> Version: 4.4.2-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> i'm fond of xfce AND openarena, and since latest debian version 
> (4.4.2-7),
> screen stays black when i exit openarena.
> How to reproduce : launch openarena, then quit.
> Symptoms : 
> - black screen
> - mouse cursor visible
> - right-click shows xfce menu, but without background refresh
> - panels react, but are invisible and launched apps are not visible 
> either
> - when disconnecting x session, black screen disappears and for a split 
> second windows are visible, just before x shuts down.
> It seems that bug is triggered with by a recent xfdesktop4 update, but i 
> could be wrong. I guess it's not an openarena bug, because it is not 
> triggered with gnome or kde sessions.

I don't think it's xfdesktop4 related, maybe more xfwm4. Do you use
compositing? In case not, is it disabled in xorg.conf? What driver do
you use?

> I have trouble reverting to previous xfdesktop4 unstable package, is 
> there a way to get it, or to get the corresponding source package ? (i 
> emptied my package cache since then).

Try on snapshot.debian.net

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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