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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GOT IT! (Was: Pb with netscape -remote)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-04-10 13:37:28
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On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:31, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > I am using Kde 2.1.1, and the well known netscape -remote bug is
> > still present (ie netscape is running, `netscape -remote` failed
> > with "netscape: root window has no children on display hal:0.0".)
> > 
> i found the origin of the problem: kdesktop.
> kdebase/kdesktop/desktop.cc introduced a new function
> KDesktop::setVRoot() in revision 1.214. 
> obviously, the virtual root window is changed intentionally. sadly, this
> breaks netscape-remote.

But without it xsnow (and any other program that wants to access
the root window) breaks.
Tricky problem - I hear that Matthias Ettrich looked into a way to
make both work and didn't find any :(

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