https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398364
User jpryor@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398364#c8
Jonathan Pryor changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Jonathan Pryor 2008-12-01 08:02:43 MST ---
In comment #1, I forgot a step: Click Apply.
Once apply is clicked, things go south. Specifically:
1. I don't see the panel anymore.
2. Where the panel _was_ (across the top of the screen), I now see flickering
in the top-left corner. Constant redrawing, from what I can guess.
3. I can't select any windows. I have focus-follows-mouse enabled, and
hovering over a window no longer changes the title bar color. Clicking inside
a window has no effect (e.g. if the window is below another window, it is NOT
raised to be top in the Z order).
4. The output of top(1) shows gnome-panel with 65+% CPU, and an increasing
amount of %MEM (38.8, 39.7, etc...).
Incredibly, the mouse still moves, but the system is ~completely unusable from
within Gnome (though using a terminal still works, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1...).
One piece of information that might be needed to reproduce is my dual-screen
setup: This is a laptop, so my "primary" screen is the laptop screen. The
secondary screen is placed to the *left* of the primary screen. My panel is on
the primary screen. Thus:
+-----------+-------------+
| | panel-1 |
| +-------------+
| | |
| Secondary | Primary |
| | |
+-----------+-------------+
Based on previous comments (comment #4 and comment #7), my suspicion is that
when the Mirror Screens checkbox + Apply button is clicked, the
screens/monitors are renumbered, and the Primary screen goes from being Monitor
1 to Monitor 0. gnome-panel, meanwhile, wants to stick a panel into monitor 1,
which no longer exists, and consequently craps itself in a busy loop of some
form.
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