Issue 1466 - Xinerama causes application launch to hang
Summary: Xinerama causes application launch to hang
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 633
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: christof.pintaske
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2001-08-15 14:23 UTC by cdevidal2
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this issue.
Description cdevidal2 2001-08-15 14:23:34 UTC
I'm using RedHat 7.1 and XFree 4.1.0, and I use Xinerama to give me two screens
at 1024x768 and 1280x1024.  Launching Open Office 633 hangs at the splash screen
but doesn't freeze; that is, the process appears to be working normally.  When I
disable Xinerama (with two separate screens running two separate window
managers) it works perfectly.
 
DPI doesn't seem to matter, I've tried 75~135.  Regardless, I am unable to set
X's DPI to two equal numbers when using Xinerama.  For instance, using -dpi 75
yields a dpi of 135x75.  So this might be an X problem.  But Star Office 5.2 was
usable at 135x75; Open Office 633 doesn't even launch.
 
Here is my xdpyinfo:
 
name of display:    :0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number:    40100000
XFree86 version: 4.1.0
maximum request size:  4194300 bytes
motion buffer size:  256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    7
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
    depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 255
focus:  window 0xa0000b, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions:    27
    BIG-REQUESTS
    DPMS
    Extended-Visual-Information
    FontCache
    GLX
    LBX
    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
    MIT-SHM
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    RENDER
    SECURITY
    SGI-GLX
    SHAPE
    SYNC
    TOG-CUP
    XC-APPGROUP
    XC-MISC
    XFree86-Bigfont
    XFree86-DGA 
    XFree86-DRI
    XFree86-Misc
    XFree86-VidModeExtension
    XINERAMA
    XInputExtension
    XKEYBOARD
    XTEST
    XVideo
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1
 
screen #0:
  dimensions:    2304x1024 pixels (433x347 millimeters)
  resolution:    135x75 dots per inch
  depths (1):    24
  root window id:    0x3c
  depth of root window:    24 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x20
  default number of colormap cells:    256
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 16777215
  options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
  largest cursor:    64x64
  current input event mask:    0xf0403f
    KeyPressMask             KeyReleaseMask           ButtonPressMask
    ButtonReleaseMask        EnterWindowMask          LeaveWindowMask
    KeymapStateMask          SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask
    PropertyChangeMask       ColormapChangeMask
  number of visuals:    2
  default visual id:  0x23
  visual:
    visual id:    0x23
    class:    TrueColor
    depth:    24 planes
    available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x24
    class:    TrueColor
    depth:    24 planes
    available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-08-28 13:53:57 UTC
Reassigned to Philipp.
Comment 2 philipp.lohmann 2001-08-30 11:05:40 UTC
need to get a Xinerama display to debug
Comment 3 Unknown 2001-08-30 19:16:19 UTC
I'm having the same problem.

Soffice is expanding its windows to screen size instead of
to monitor size.  This distinction doesn't matter on
single head systems, but is a major problem on multi-heads.

Further, on my dualhead system, it is opening a screen, two
monitors wide, but starting on the right monitor such that
half of its window is inaccessible. 
Comment 4 philipp.lohmann 2001-09-14 14:11:57 UTC
pl->cp: you now have a dual head card
Comment 5 cdevidal2 2001-09-26 17:56:23 UTC
Updated to OpenOffice 638 while simultaneously reinstalling RedHat
7.1.  Appears to be working now, except text is too wide (as reported
by another user, due to DPI incorrectly reported).

I also did not use an external JVM (during OpenOffice setup, installed
no JVM).  Perhaps this was causing it to lock up.  I was using 1.3.1
from Sun before I believe.

Anyway, I will continue to use OpenOffice inside of a local VNC server
and viewer, so that the text is not stretched.  If you'd like a copy
of the script I use to launch OpenOffice inside VNC, please ask.

Thanks for making such an excellent Office product.

CD
Comment 6 christof.pintaske 2001-11-19 19:21:41 UTC
checked with 641, could not see any problems. The wiiiiiideeeee fonts
are a bug in xfree. xdpyinfo correctly reports 2304x1024 pixels for
both monitors but states 433x347 millimeters. Obviously the size of
only one screen :-( That's where we got the resolution from. Since
OOo6 is able to stretch it tries to compensate different x and y
resolution. This was not implemented in SO5. 

Comment 7 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:46:35 UTC
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 8 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:21:01 UTC
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details. 
Comment 9 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:21:23 UTC
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.