Bugzilla – Bug 155335
Compiz makes rdesktop window entirely transparent.
Last modified: 2006-03-21 10:33:59 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
Created attachment 71283 [details] rdesktop working correctly under metacity
Created attachment 71284 [details] rdesktop messed up under compiz
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.
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.
Created attachment 71607 [details] Fix for ARGB visual issue in rdesktop I think this patch should solve the problem.
Adding rdesktop maintainer.
patch included and submitted. Michael: If you want to test it, I can send you a RPM.
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.
We should not close bugs until STABLE is fixed.
Assigning to rdesktop maintainer.
I should *really* read more carefully :-( Sorry, Michael...