running gimp causes any window moves to lock up the system
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Apr 13 09:53:43 UTC 2009
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> ok, time for another bug report that i'm sure i'm the only one
> seeing. :-)
>
> on a fully-updated f11 beta system, i can drag windows all over my
> desktop and, when i'm doing the drag to a new location, the cursor is
> temporarily the tilted square with four smaller squares inside it. so
> far, so good?
>
> i just happened to start gimp and opened a png file, and never even
> had time to start editing it when i tried to drag a window out of the
> way, at which point the system locked up, leaving me with the square
> cursor that i could still control, but everything else frozen.
>
> after rebooting, i verified that i could open multiple xterms and
> drag them all over the place. then started gimp, tried to drag and
> ... hang. exactly the same way. tested this two more times,
> *exactly* the same result.
>
> anyone else seeing this? i don't even have to *do* anything in gimp
> -- it's just having it running that makes moving *anything* on the
> desktop cause the system to hang. thoughts?
after verifying this one more time, i've bugzilla'ed it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495454
i have no idea whether this is related specifically to gimp or whether
it's more widespread. all i can say is that it's the only app that's
caused this behaviour in this way.
rday
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