Bug 4376 - Xfce4 broken after yesterday's updates - huge mouse cursor, KDE applications start with windows out of screen limits
Summary: Xfce4 broken after yesterday's updates - huge mouse cursor, KDE applications ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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: 4549 4718 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-02-02 01:27 CET by Jaromír Cápík
Modified: 2012-02-27 12:32 CET (History)
5 users (show)

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Source RPM: xfce4-settings-4.9.2-1.mga2.src.rpm
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Description Jaromír Cápík 2012-02-02 01:27:38 CET 
Description of problem:
Hello. Since updates I did yesterday, all KDE applications started from Xfce have incorrect window size (height many times higher than the screen resolution ... I was trying to use Alt+Mouse to resize the window and after more than 50 screen heights I gave up) and that often leads to memory depletion and the whole Xserver is terminated. The mouse cursor is 3x bigger than before. Gtk apps do not seem to be affected. Other sessions (KDE, Gnome, fluxbox, windowmaker) work without any problems (KDE and Gnome apps work correctly with them).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the latest updates
2. Start Xfce4
3. Check the mouse cursor size, run some kde apps (konsole, kcalc, ...)
Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-02 12:03:10 CET 
I confirm the huge mouse issue

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Claire Revillet 2012-02-03 09:26:52 CET 
The huge mouse issue can be suppressed (thanks Nanar!) by changing the size of the cursor.
It stopped becoming huge after that and I was able to put the normal size after (the bug did not come back).

But it's just a workaround, not a true resolution of the bug.

CC: (none) => grenoya

Comment 3 Jaromír Cápík 2012-02-03 15:47:59 CET 
Hello Claire.

That doesn't work for me.
How exactly have You changed the size?

Thanks,
Jaromir.
Comment 4 Jaromír Cápík 2012-02-03 17:01:41 CET 
I just somehow managed that. Change of the cursor size in xfce mouse/touchpad settings up and down followed by relogin.

Thanks.
Helge Hielscher 2012-02-06 01:17:55 CET

CC: (none) => hhielscher

Jani Välimaa 2012-02-26 08:53:10 CET

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 5 Jani Välimaa 2012-02-26 10:29:19 CET 
Pushed new xfce4-settings release [1] with patch from upstream GIT which hopefully fixes this bug too (another is bug 4549). Please test it.

[1] xfce4-settings-4.9.2-2.mga2
Comment 6 Jaromír Cápík 2012-02-26 12:18:39 CET 
Geeeez :D I have my lovely xfce4 back and working again!
Thanks, Jani!!!

I believe the bug 4549 is a duplicate of this bug ...
Comment 7 Jani Välimaa 2012-02-26 15:19:00 CET 
*** Bug 4549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Jani Välimaa 2012-02-26 15:19:56 CET

See Also: (none) => https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8437
Source RPM: xfce4-session-4.8.2-2.mga2.src.rpm => xfce4-settings-4.9.2-1.mga2.src.rpm

Comment 8 Jani Välimaa 2012-02-26 15:21:29 CET 
I'm happy to finally get this fixed. Closing as fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 9 Remco Rijnders 2012-02-27 12:32:00 CET 
*** Bug 4718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => laidlaws
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