Re: oaf multi-display support

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Richard Hult <rhult hem passagen se> writes:

> > > I added some code to oafd to print out what property it's trying to
> > > get, what property it's actually getting, and what value it is getting
> > > for it whenever it gets a context value. Could you (and anyone else
> > > seeing this weirdness) please let me know what happens?
> > 
> > It definitely looks weird:
> > 
> > XXX - propname: "username", NamedValue name: "username", value: "cactus"
> > XXX - propname: "hostname", NamedValue name: "username", value: "cactus"
> > XXX - propname: "domain", NamedValue name: "username", value: "cactus"
> > XXX - propname: "hostname", NamedValue name: "username", value: "cactus"
> > XXX - propname: "display", NamedValue name: "username", value: "cactus"
> > 
> > I'm using ORBit 0.5.3, by the way (I don't remember anymore what required
> > it)
> 
> This looks like something I encountered when trying to make a shlib
> Bonobo control a while ago. There was a bug in ORBit that made it keep
> returning the same value without regard to which property you were asking
> for. It was a while ago, maybe a month (?), and I fixed the stable ORBit
> branch. If you don't have the latest (cvs) of that, try an update.
> 

That sounds quite likely to be related. It's also possible that the
code OAF is using to get the property is wrong. I'll check it out.

 - Maciej