Bug 68843

Summary:	Dragging outlined windows skips XMMS playback.
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Dylan Griffiths <dylang>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andihartmann, kde, petr
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
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Description Dylan Griffiths 2003-11-23 08:33:36 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:          Linux

XMMS seems to have a bug whereby when it can't update its audio out stream if it can't also draw on its window.  When KMW is setup with outline dragging, it will lock all screen updates while the outline is dragged.  The interaction of these two behaviours leads to annoying music skips.

The ideal solution would be to allow the desktop to continue to update while dragging an outline around, as well as a fix to XMMS (since this behaviour sometimes won't manifest -- which makes me think it's an unintentional side effect of its graphics/sound code).

This is with KDE 3.1.4 on Slackware 9.1.

Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2003-11-25 17:53:06 UTC

This won't be that simple ... if it will be possible to do at all.

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2003-11-27 15:41:26 UTC

*** Bug 69031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 anatoly yakovenko 2004-02-06 08:15:52 UTC

effects mplayer/xine/gstreamer even simple top, or any kind of output seems not to be updated.  it looks like the processes are still running though, and sending output, but its just being buffered instead of drawn.

Comment 4 anatoly yakovenko 2004-02-06 08:17:27 UTC

my comment #3, is with kde 3.2

Comment 5 Lubos Lunak 2004-03-08 14:25:08 UTC

There's a good explanation in Fluxbox FAQ: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/en/faq.php#outline_moving

Comment 6 Lubos Lunak 2004-03-27 16:14:27 UTC

*** Bug 78548 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Lubos Lunak 2004-05-28 09:53:57 UTC

*** Bug 82364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Ilya Korniyko 2004-07-28 20:12:35 UTC

Well, why you can't have option to draw outline that is not inverted, but some fixed color?
(Windows does this way)
Now show window contents is slow, outline pauses screen and audio refresh.
This makes desktop users consider Linux unusable.

Comment 9 Ilya Korniyko 2004-07-28 20:14:56 UTC

Latest xmms doesn't block sound already

Comment 10 Lubos Lunak 2004-07-29 11:31:50 UTC

Using a fixed color doesn't change anything. If you don't like this, don't use outline moving/resizing.