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Bug#249891: konqueror: "View document source" unmaps random application windows



# closed by mistake
reopen 249891
tag 249891 =
reassign 249891 sawfish
thanks


> The problem still exists...random windows disappear from the desktop
> whenever konqueror launches kwrite, and again whenever such kwrites
> exit.
>
> In other words:  position mouse cursor over a Konqueror web page
> window, press Ctrl-U for show source, and two things will happen: 
> one window on the desktop apparently chosen at random will disappear,
> and a kwrite window showing the source of the web page will appear. 
> It sounds really bizarre to read the description of the behavior as
> text, but that's really what it does!
>
> The problem seems to affect only the Sawfish/Konqueror/Kwrite
> combination. I have used Konqueror on KDE (with kwin as WM) without
> anything like this problem.  With Sawfish I can use kwrite by itself,
> and I can run non-text embedded viewers like the KDE image and PDF
> viewers within Konqueror without problems, but I have problems with
> plain-text web pages, and web pages with text documents in IFRAMEs
> (e.g. the "Edit attachment" page in Bugzilla with a text attachment)
> since Konqueror will launch a kwrite for those.
>
> There have been several upgrades to these packages and their
> dependencies on my system since I first reported this bug, but the
> behavior has not been affected by any of these changes.
>
> Here's the current state of sawfish and konqueror:
> [snip]

this really looks like a sawfish problem, I've not heard of anything 
like that in any other WM. I'll reassign it to sawfish, and let the 
maintainer decide.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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