[winswitch] xpra 0.14.23 - Spinners not going away

[Douglas Doole]

> You may also be able to restore things by toggling opengl off then on
> again from the tray menu. (assuming your system supports opengl)

I am using opengl, so I'll give this a try the next time I see it happen.

> Thanks for reporting it.
> It would help if I could reproduce the problem on my setup.

If I ever determine something that triggers it, I'll be sure to update you.

> Can you tell us which applications were running when the problem
> occurred? (and also which ones were affected and which ones were not)

Every time I've seen it (3 times now), I've had a mix of konsole and gvim
up. The problem has affected both window types. On the last occurrence, I
had two konsole windows and 4 gvim windows and only one konsole window was
affected. Previously I'd had a similar mix of windows, but it was one gvim
and two konsole windows that were affected.

On the most recent occurrence I noticed that the troublesome spinner is
actually static until the window contents change. So, on the stuck konsole,
the spinner was frozen until I started typing, at which point it rotated
one segment for each character typed. I also noticed that the stuck spinner
survives things like window resizing, minimizing, etc.

> Unfortunately, there isn't a specific debug switch for this feature, so
> you would need to use the big hammer "-d client", which will also log a
> lot of unrelated things.
> And even if the logging was more specific, it may not tell us enough to
> debug further.

On the last occurrence, I captured the basic client log, but all it showed
was the "server is not responding, drawing spinners over the wind
ows" message. I'll add "-d client" and see if I get anything useful.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Douglas,
>
> On 06/05/15 00:00, Douglas Doole wrote:
> > Since upgrading to xpra 0.14.23, I've had a couple instances where I've
> had
> > a network hiccup and the spinners have appeared. Yet once the network is
> > moving again, the spinners have remained on some of the windows (not all)
> > even though they are otherwise responding properly. That is, I'm editing
> > text, cutting & pasting, etc. but the spinner is sitting in front of
> > everything spinning away. Needless to say, it makes the affected windows
> > pretty much unusable.
> >
> > Once this has happened, the only way I can clear things up is to drop the
> > client connection and re-connect to the server.
> You may also be able to restore things by toggling opengl off then on
> again from the tray menu. (assuming your system supports opengl)
> > I am not able to reproduce this on demand, but it has happened a couple
> > times now. I have no idea what the trigger might be. I had not seen this
> > problem before upgrading to 0.14.23. Bother the server and the client are
> > running Ubuntu 14.04.
> Thanks for reporting it.
> It would help if I could reproduce the problem on my setup.
> Can you tell us which applications were running when the problem
> occurred? (and also which ones were affected and which ones were not)
> > Unfortunately, I don't have a log from either of the times I've seen it
> > happen. Anything in particular I should capture to help debug it?
> Unfortunately, there isn't a specific debug switch for this feature, so
> you would need to use the big hammer "-d client", which will also log a
> lot of unrelated things.
> And even if the logging was more specific, it may not tell us enough to
> debug further.
>
> Looking at the spinner code, I found a couple of issues, maybe one of
> those is what was causing your problem.
> These fixes will be included in 0.14.24.
>
> Thanks
> Antoine
>
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