xchat does not do composite transparency, crashes if transparency is enabled with GTK RGBA

[Matt Wheeler]

Binary package hint: xchat

xchat should be able to do transparency the way gnome-terminal does (should do), rather than just grabbing the desktop image and selecting the correct bit

[Sebastian Breier (tomcat42)]

This also affects xchat-gnome. I added it in Ubuntu & upstream.

[Sebastian Breier (tomcat42)]

I think it's not clear from the original bug report that this is a AIGLX/XGL issue, because gnome-terminal has the same transparency as xchat(-gnome) has with metacity.

[Jonas Wagner (veers)]

I did some work on this issue. But I'm not using xchat anymore so I'll not finish it.
Here is the topic in the forum which contains my patch (and screenshots ;) )
http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=3187

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Patch.

Note to the core developers: since I hear there are plans for RGBA by default in Maverick, this patch is worth looking at for another reason: without it, xchat-gnome crashes if the old ("fake") transparency is enabled in RGBA window mode.

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

To clarify, that patch above is for xchat-gnome. I haven't worked on plain xchat for this.

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Slightly modified patch.

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Debdiff.

xchat-gnome (1:0.26.1-1ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * Added debian/patches/22_rgba_transparency.patch:
    - Use alpha transparency if available; fix crash when transparency is set
      with GTK RGBA enabled (LP: #92028)

 -- Maia Kozheva <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:36:27 +0700

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

xchat did not crash for me in Maverick did it crash for anyone else?

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Updated patch for Maverick, fixing a text rendering issue with Cairo 1.9 by wrapping rectangle filling in cairo_save/cairo_restore.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fix has landed upstream. Does anybody know if there's a new release planned or should we package a snapshot?

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Is there anything here that actually needs sponsoring?

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Can someone verify if the version in natty carries this fix? If not, then this should be re-added to sponsors queue to get packaged and included in natty.

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Verified that the version in Natty fixes it, closing.