AfterStep Bug List
Report Date: 2007 Nov 12
Bug Description: Pager doesn't display different desktops vertically.
Submitted By: Speedy
Affected AfterStep version: 2.2.7
OS/Distribution: Linux/Fedora Core 8
Status/AS version: Open
Bug Detail:
Pager doesn't seem to display vertically well; only horizontally. For example: I have two desktops (Work and WWW). In the file "pager", I set PagerRows to "2" (from "1"), and PagerColumns to "1" (from "2"). Pager only seems to "stack" vertically intermittently, usually with "Work" being the only desktop displayed. Switching the numbers back works fine. I have exited the session and restarted to no avail. I have seen it display correctly on occasion, but it currently isn't working.
Report Date: 2007 Aug 01
Bug Description: xmms creates heavy CPU load.
Submitted By: Daniel A. Ramaley, Volker Ossenkopf
Affected AfterStep version: All
OS/Distribution: Linux/Unbuntu
Status/AS version: Open
Bug Detail:
I didn't do any debugging, but I noticed that the problem was the same or even worse on my system (Debian etch with afterstep 2.2.6) while opening a particular website that updated the window title every second. This gives an easy way of testing the problem completely independent from xmms: I ran xterm and within the xterm-bash the loop: ossk@hevelius: while (true); do echo -n "^[]0;`date`^G"; sleep 1; done (^[ is the character for escape and ^G the character for bell) This updates the xterm window every second. In this way one can easily time the problem: After about 8 minutes I notice the first increase in the afterstep load (6%), after 16 minutes, I am at about 20%, after 24 minutes I am at 30%, after 32 minutes 45%. The load drops immediately to zero when I stop the loop in the xterm, so that the title is no longer updated. The delayed behaviour seems to indicate a memory management problem for the structure containing the window titles. This might explain, why the problem does not seem to occur on all systems using afterstep, but may depend on an underlying library. I don't want to make further guessing about the cause here, but hope that this gives at least some additional information. Cheers Volker
Report Date: 2007 Jun 04
Bug Description: Various AfterStep Users' Mailing List bugs.
Submitted By: Various
Affected AfterStep version: Various (should be current)
OS/Distribution: Various
Status/AS version: Open
Bug Detail:
Icons not handled correctly in stacking code: (Felipe Sanchez)
Case: 1. Iconify a window. Call it "A" 2. Place another (Non-iconified) window over it. Call it "B" 3. Ask window "B" to Unraise Expected result: Window "B" unraises and iconified window "A" raises above it ("A" is still iconified, but above "B").
Provide documentation to remove Pager shade buttons: (Dave North)
*PagerShadeButton tiles/empty or *PagerShadeButton or Probably should add a *PagerNoShadeButton option.
Report Date: 2007 Jun 04
Bug Description: Desktop entries not working in wharf.
Submitted By: Speedy
Affected AfterStep version: 2.2.6 & CVS
OS/Distribution: Linux/Fedora Core 6
Status/AS version: Open
Bug Detail:
- Under FC6 (and I imagine other distros as well), XChat is called "IRC" in the menu. There is also an icon called "normal/IRC" in the AS distribution. In Wharf, rather than pulling the icon associated with the .desktop entry for XChat, Wharf is displaying the icon normal/IRC and not actually setting up XChat (IRC) to run. I want to stress that this just isn't an icon issue, as the application will not launch. Ex: *Wharf IRC normal/IRCTransparent Exec "xchat" xchat &
- Under 2.2.6, drawing-in desktop entries into wharf seems not to work. No icons or buttons are currently displayed. As usual, the "hard" method still works (providing the executable name and icon information). Drawing-in CategoryTree still works.