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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GOT IT! (Was: Pb with netscape -remote)
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-04-10 14:47:03
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On Tuesday 10 April 2001 15:37, David Faure wrote:
> 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 :(

Indeed. I suggest we do the gnome-thing then and do not support xsnow and 
friends. Instead, we will add a additional propertly GraphicalRoot, so people 
can _patch_ xsnow and friends to work with KDE.

Anybody interested in doing this?

The only solution for Netscape I could find was a shell script called 
"netscape" that starts Konqueror. But people wouldn´t like that very much, I 
guess ;)

Matthias

 
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