Re: Strange window problem

[Frank McCormick <debian@videotron.ca>]

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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:56:26 -0400
Frank McCormick <debian@videotron.ca> wrote:

> > > > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up
> > > > try htop or pstree or many other similar tools
> > >   As far as I can see neither show anything unususal,
> > 
> > If *really* you can identify all processes as shown by, say, htop in
> > tree mode run by root, and you are sure than none of them gives the
> > unusual window, then either your box has been hacked or you have found
> > a big bug (in htop or the kernel), or the process is really run by
> > another host and only connects to your X server (but then you should
> > see the connection with netstat, either directly as tcp connection, or
> > as a tcp ssh connection plus a unix socket). Also note that the xkill
> > man page suggests at the end xwininfo
> 
>   I will have to wait now until I get the window back - I killed it and
> rebooted earlier. I'm not sure what creates it so I'll have to wait.

Got the weird window back tonight - it may have something to do with (I
think) my Sylpheed mail reader. At least that's what I was using when I
noticed it.

frank@debian:~$ xwininfo

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0xc00008 (has no name)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^ first time I've seen this!!

  Absolute upper-left X:  82
  Absolute upper-left Y:  127
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  0
  Width: 185
  Height: 175
  Depth: 24
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +82+127  -1413+127  -1413-748  +82-748
  -geometry 185x175+82+127


This is after I enlarged it - when it first appears its very small so I
guess it often goes unnoticed.

It's got me baffled...but that's not very hard!

BTW I am running Sid/Lenny


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