kdebase: netscape-remote command does not work on kde21 desktop
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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:03:20 -0600
From: "Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@tdyc.com>
To: ernst.kloppenburg@gmx.de, 102894-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#102894: kdebase: netscape-remote command does not work on kde21 desktop
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM +0200, ernst.kloppenburg@gmx.de wrote:
> Package: kdebase
> Version: 4:2.1.0.1-0.potato4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> this packages (potato versions) was downloaded from kde.tdyc.com. But
> I guess there are similar Packages in debian unstable (which I do not
> have), so I send the bug report to the BTS anyway.
>
> With Debian, a netscape installation has the nice feature that a
> running netscape is automatically reused when the command 'netscape
> someUrl' is used. Under kde1.x this worked, in fvwm it also does, but
> with kde2.1 not.
>
> When I call 'netscape-remote' directly, I get the following error
> message: 'root window has no children on display :0'
>
> This can be verified with 'xwininfo -children -root' which gives a
> very short output in this case. With fvwm running the output of the
> command gives a lot of children windows.
>
> I have no idea why/how kde would change the behaviour of the Xserver
> in responding to xwininfo.
>
> Best regards, E. Kloppenburg
>
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 2.2
> Kernel Version: Linux rechner2 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
>
> Versions of the packages kdebase depends on:
> ii debianutils 1.13.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
> ii kdebase-libs 2.1.0.1-0.pota KDE libraries amd modules for kdebase
> ii kdelibs3 2.1.0.1-0.pota KDE core libraries (runtime files)
> ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii libjpeg62 6b-1.2 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime li
> ii libkonq3 2.1.0.1-0.pota Core libraries for KDE's file manager
> ii liblcms 1.07-0.potato1 Color management library
> ii libmng1 1.0.0-0.potato Multiple-image Network Graphics library
> ii libpam0g 0.72-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules library
> ii libpam-modules 0.72-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
> ii libpng2 1.0.5-1 PNG library - runtime
> ii libqt2 2.3.0-final-0. Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
> ii libssl096 0.9.6-0.potato SSL shared libraries
> ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13 The GNU stdc++ library
> ii xfree86-common 3.3.6-10 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
> ii xlib6g 3.3.6-10 shared libraries required by X clients
> kdelibs3-crypto Not installed or no info
> libqt2-gl Not installed or no info
> ii xpm4g 3.4k-5 the X PixMap library
> ^^^ (Provides virtual package libxpm4)
> ii zlib1g 1.1.3-5 compression library - runtime
> ^^^ (Provides virtual package libz1)
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