Bug 48865

Summary:	Wallpaper "sliding" on screen
Product:	kdesktop	Reporter:	Thibaut Cousin <kde>
Component:	icons	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Thibaut Cousin 2002-10-08 11:37:23 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 2.95.3 
OS:          Linux

I've triggered this bug several times with KDE 3.0.2 and KDE 3.0.3, but I haven't found a way to make it happen every time.

Sometimes, drawing a selection rectangle on the desktop (left-click, drag the mouse) and making it go "out of screen" has a strange effect: the wallpaper "follows", i.e. slides as if I had a virtual desktop bigger than the screen (which is *not* the case). I must add that desktop icons follow the wallpaper, but not Kicker.

When it happens, I can put the wallpaper back in place by dragging the selection rectangle on the opposite border, or by refreshing the desktop, but the desktop remains "sensitive" afterwards, it can happen again. But if I log out and log in again, everything is back to normal and the bug is not so easy to trigger again.

I think I triggered it especially when downloading a big bunch of files on the desktop. The files' icons end up piled on each other and when I tried to "Align the icons", some of the icons go off-screen. Then, if I try to draw a selection box, I can reach the off-screen icons because the desktop "slides" and the icons with it.

If I have no off-screen icon, it seems I can't trigger the bug.

The best thing would be to make sure that no icon can go off-screen, I guess.

Comment 1 johnelliottmartin 2003-01-30 07:17:03 UTC

I found a way to reproduce this bug, here's how:

put two icons on your desktop arranged like so:

X
   X

where the X's are the icons. Now select both icons and drag them to the bottom
of the screen by grabbing the top icon as the drag point, and move them so that
the bottom icon is partially off the screen, so you can see the top icon
completely, but the bottom icon has it's bottom off the screen.

now select the two icons using a selection rectangle by starting just above and
to the left of the top icon and drag down. The desktop will slide...

Comment 2 Wilco Greven 2003-08-23 15:09:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40418 ***

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:19:59 UTC

Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.