Bug#230833: kdebase-bin: kstart can make a window show up on the wrong desktop
Package: kdebase-bin
Version: 4:3.1.4-1
Severity: normal
If I go
kstart --desktop 4 --activate kmail --check
to have kmail check for any new mail, kmail will do its think okay, but if I
subsequently try to open a new window in some other application in a different
desktop, that new window will also appear in desktop 4. Which is what I expect to
see. The completely unrelated appplication should open its windows in the desktop
it uses.
It is 100% reproducible to me, and it affects both new applications (for example
opening KEdit by clicking on a text file on the Desktop) and widget windows of a
running application, both KDE applications and non-KDE applications (for example
if I go Ctrl+F in Firebird, the Find window will appear on desktop 4).
This bug has been in every version of KDE I've tried, and while all my systems
are Debian systems, it could be an upstream bug. It is of course just an
annoyance, but it is getting rather annoying now... :-)
In case someone wondered, I have this bound by lineakd to a special key on my
keyboard, so I do this frequently, but it is reproducible from the command line
too.
My system is mostly from unstable, but I decided to stabilize and use testing
sources a few weeks ago, and so I don't have the latest kde packages, but from the
KDE changelogs, it doesn't seem to have been any significant work on this for
3.1.5.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux owl 2.4.23-backstreet-ruby.2003-12-26.3-owl #1 Fri Dec 26 23:23:03 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kdebase-bin depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.1.4-3 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.6b-1 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.6.10-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-13 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-1.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-0pre1 GCC support library
ii libpam0g 0.76-15 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.1-6 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-0pre1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxcursor1 1.0.2-4 X Cursor management library
ii libxft2 2.1.2-5 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0-0pre1v3 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibs 4.3.0-0pre1v3 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime
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