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gnome-screensaver package

  1. Bug #333269
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 333269

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David Barth (dbarth) wrote : Re: [jaunty] leave message does not use new notify system

Yes, there are 2 separate bugs.

1. Is a window manager and or screensaver bug. I was not able to reproduce that with metacity-1:2.25.144-0ubuntu1 (compositing on/off). However, I have been able to (partly) reproduce that with compiz-1:0.7.9+git20090211-0ubuntu4. Partly in that the "peak" was limited to the gnome-panel, but the rest of the desktop was not displayed. I would suggest keeping that as a gnome-screensaver bug, and optionally filing a bug against compiz.

2. You get a dialog box because gnome-screensaver wants the notification to be seen and specifies an infinite timeout probably. In this case, I think we adopt the right behaviour in turning that into a dialog box. This way you can actually see the message when you get back to your session. You may want to improve the design of the message box, but then it's up to the application to render it better, by managing it's own dialog box, instead of relying on some bad fallback mechanism provided by the current version of notify-osd. To summarize, this is /also/ a gnome-screensaver bug.