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zwa

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Registered: 2005-12-05

Posts: 119

Running console app from an X app launcher makes windows go black.

After running "calc" from gmrun, all windows go black, same happens with ncmpcpp so I guess the problem is related with ncurses somehow.
I am using openbox and start X with startx if that matters. Calc is a console app but even then I should not lose my windows after running it (from gmrun).

System specs:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4)
00:11.0 RAID bus controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [Non-RAID5 mode]
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]

glxinfo:

client glx version string: 1.4
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV710
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30

uname -r:

3.15.1-1-ARCH

Some package versions:

local/ati-dri 10.2.1-2
local/epsxe-plugin-gpu-mesagl 1.78-3
local/glu 9.0.0-2
local/lib32-ati-dri 10.2.1-2
local/lib32-glu 9.0.0-2
local/lib32-libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-5
local/lib32-mesa 10.2.1-2
local/lib32-mesa-demos 8.1.0-3   
local/lib32-mesa-libgl 10.2.1-2    
local/libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-5    
local/mesa 10.2.1-2
local/mesa-demos 8.1.0-2
local/mesa-libgl 10.2.1-2

xorg-server 1.15.1-1

local/calc 2.12.4.13-1
console calculator

edit: fixed code tags

Last edited by zwa (2014-06-20 04:37:11)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Running console app from an X app launcher makes windows go black.

gmrun is a run dialog, right?  I have no idea why your machine would be doing this, but I'm kind of curious what would make you want to run a console application in a run dialog?

Also, please use code tags.

Edit: I just installed gmrun on my machine.  From i3, calc doesn't cause any screen blackness.  Interestingly though, if I run gmrun from the terminal, then calc from within the gmrun dialog, the calc interactive mode ends up as the output of the gmrun command in the terminal.

Last edited by WonderWoofy (2014-06-20 04:24:34)

zwa

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Registered: 2005-12-05

Posts: 119

Re: Running console app from an X app launcher makes windows go black.

Here is a screenshot:

xterm, xclock seems not to be affected by this bug. New xapps executed run fine.