Invisible background image shows desktop instead of applications underneath

[PerfMonk]

The rectangle space occupied by the applet is showing the background instead of the current application in focus.
I have selected options "hide bar when not in use". The applet should be hiding under the windows in focus wich it didn't.

The applet I use is x11-plugins/desklet-Genesis-0.2 with gnome-extra/gdesklets-core-0.36-r3.
I have 6 starters : Nautilus, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gnome-Terminal, Xlock, Gnome-Do.

The only way I can see completely my current application is to set the "always on top" windows option.

I could send some more PrintScreen if needed showing the problem.

Regards,

      Bernard Tremblay

PS: I'm under Gnome 2.28 with Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r6. If you need more info, I'd be glad to help.

[Joe Sapp (sappj)]

Fortunately I'm the author, but for the future it's good to notify him or her of this issue if possible.

[PerfMonk (linux-imaginasys)]

I just found out that the bug doesn't exist if I use "openbox" as windows manager instead of the default "Metacity" of Gnome...

May be it's a hint to a solution ?

Regards,

         BT

[PerfMonk (linux-imaginasys)]

Sorry I spoke too fast...

The problem exist but is a little different with openbox. The applet stay in background behind the current application in focus. But if you click somewhere in the applet then it comes to foreground and when you will move your mouse out of it. It will show the background instead of the application in focus.

So different symptoms but same problem,

       regards,

                BT

[Bjoern Koch (h.humpel)]

Is this a gDesklets or a Genesis problem ?

[PerfMonk (linux-imaginasys)]

I'd say it's a gDesklets problem. But I can't reproduce the problem right now, I'm having problems with gnome since mid december and gDesklet, firefox and many other apps don't work anymore. This is related to another bug in gnome for gentoo ( https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297483 ). There are no solutions that worked for me for the moment.

sorry about that,

        Bernard

[Joe Sapp (sappj)]

Bjoern, I believe this is a gDesklets bug (unless images with an opacity="0" should show right through to the desktop). I've confirmed it on my machine and I am not affected by the Gentoo bug reported in comment #6. I imagine this has to do with the libraries used to achieve transparency, but I haven't looked into the code yet.

[Joe Sapp (sappj)]

I wonder if it's related to __capture_bg() in display/GlassWindow.py . On first glance it seems that this function only grabs the wallpaper to update the background. Anybody want to look into this? I don't have much time presently.

[Joe Sapp (sappj)]

Hrm...can't reproduce this any more. Does it exist in 0.36.2?

[Bjoern Koch (h.humpel)]

What's the status on this one ?
Can anyone (still) reproduce this bug on gDesklets 0.36.2+ ??