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Bug#430819: fluxbox aborts on upgrade to xserver 1.3



forcemerge 431746 430819
thank you



J.J.Green wrote:
>> One possible cause for the problem could be that Xserver 1.3 is known to
>> not report Xinerama capabilities correctly, which can confuse clients.
>> If this wrong Xserver behavior causes fluxbox to crash, that would
>> explain the problem. To test it quickly, open src/Screen.cc in the
>> fluxbox source, go to BScreen::initXinerama() and change
>>   if (!XineramaIsActive(display)) {
>> into
>>   if (1)
>>     
>
> making that change, installing the modified fluxbox and xorg 1.3
> and we are there, working like a charm!
>
>   nexus:~> head /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>   X Window System Version 1.3.0
>   Release Date: 19 April 2007
>   X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
>
>   nexus:~> grep EE  /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>   (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>
> So I guess that closes this one -- thanks very much
> for all of your help.
>   

Great, I am merging this bug with the other Xinerama ones, which are
already marked as fixed in xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-1.

Brice





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