Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM, L. Rahyen <research@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wednesday April 2 2008 00:59:36 billstei wrote: > > > > > Can anyone confirm/reproduce this (with Wine 0.9.58 and Gnome 2.20) ? > > > > > > Start gnome terminal. > > > $ regedit > > > Click window Minimize button. > > > Repeatedly click Gnome taskbar button "Registry", and unminimized regedit > > > window intermittently fails to paint. > > > > > > I am getting similar repaint issues with various other programs too. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > In KDE everything works fine (in fact I'm using it for years and never seen > > such problem). So I decided to try with GNOME and yes, I can > > reproduce this issue. So this is GNOME-specific bug. Maybe this bug isn't > > in WINE but in GNOME WM? > > > > > > > Interesting. > > I understand it's possibly to change Gnome's WM from metacity to some > other WM. Some folks on the Gentoo lists talk about doing it once in > awhile. I've never done it but maybe there's someone here who has a > background in that sort of thing and wants to try? > > I do use Gnome but haven't tried verifying this report as of yet. > Given a bit of direction I could try changing the WM. > > - Mark Confirmed: Metacity always fails to paint unminimized wine windows. Compiz has not this problem, because windows are not really minimized in a classic sense, but instead are drawn into off-screen buffers, I think. Gnome can run the default, metacity, or compiz. Use ps to find out which one you are running. [foo]$ show metaci 2562 ? 00:00:01 metacity [foo]$ which show alias show='ps -A | grep -i'
