Bug 155335

Summary:	Compiz makes rdesktop window entirely transparent.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Forgotten User 3Fef81aWgP <forgotten_3Fef81aWgP>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Michael Calmer <mc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	eich, mc, sndirsch
Version:	Beta 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	rdesktop working correctly under metacity rdesktop messed up under compiz Fix for ARGB visual issue in rdesktop

Description Forgotten User 3Fef81aWgP 2006-03-05 23:12:52 UTC

On my system, where compiz normally works fine (using a single monitor at least,) an rdesktop (client for MS RDP) window that is at 15 bpp or higher color depth is almost totally transparent when using compiz. This makes rdesktop almost totally unusable at a decent color depth. Rdesktop works fine under metacity, but even when compiz is started without any plugins this problem still persists. Krdc does not appear suffer from this problem. Attached are two screenshots of it working and not working.

Example of an rdesktop command that causes this error (the server here is probably not accessible over the internet though) :
rdesktop depaulo.case.edu -a 16

Hardware:
Athlon 64 3000+ Clawhammer
Geforce 6800GT AGP 256 meg

Software:
SuSE linux 10.1 beta6 x86-64 (all the relevant software is for x86-64 as well)
NVidia 81.78 video driver with the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-U012206.diff.txt patch applied.
Compiz 0.0.4-2
Xgl CVS_060223-2
rdesktop 1.4.1-5

Comment 1 Forgotten User 3Fef81aWgP 2006-03-05 23:14:14 UTC

Created attachment 71283 [details]
rdesktop working correctly under metacity

Comment 2 Forgotten User 3Fef81aWgP 2006-03-05 23:15:09 UTC

Created attachment 71284 [details]
rdesktop messed up under compiz

Comment 3 David Reveman 2006-03-06 16:14:57 UTC

My guess is that this is a rdesktop bug. It's probably picking an ARGB visual.

Try running it like this:

> XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 rdesktop depaulo.case.edu -a 16

If this helps, then it's a rdesktop bug. I can easily fix it if I can just reproduce it on my machine.

Comment 4 Forgotten User 3Fef81aWgP 2006-03-06 20:02:53 UTC

Yes, using that command it works perfectly.

If you would like me to change some stuff on my system to see if the problem still persists, say use the x86 version, then let me know.

Comment 5 David Reveman 2006-03-07 17:53:06 UTC

Created attachment 71607 [details]
Fix for ARGB visual issue in rdesktop

I think this patch should solve the problem.

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2006-03-19 09:01:26 UTC

Adding rdesktop maintainer.

Comment 7 Michael Calmer 2006-03-20 11:15:33 UTC

patch included and submitted.
Michael: If you want to test it, I can send you a RPM.

Comment 8 Forgotten User 3Fef81aWgP 2006-03-21 04:54:42 UTC

Sorry, I was away from my computer capable of testing this for over a week. My other one went into trouble, outlined here.
http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-factory/2006-Mar/0373.html

Regardless, I just used the patch on the 1.4.1-6 source, and the bug now appears to be fixed.

Comment 9 Matthias Hopf 2006-03-21 10:32:25 UTC

We should not close bugs until STABLE is fixed.

Comment 10 Matthias Hopf 2006-03-21 10:33:00 UTC

Assigning to rdesktop maintainer.

Comment 11 Matthias Hopf 2006-03-21 10:33:59 UTC

I should *really* read more carefully :-(

Sorry, Michael...