Re: GTK3 resize grip freezes the window manager

[Jeremy Henty <onepoint starurchin org>]

No suggestions?  I upgraded to Gtk 3.0.1 but it has made no difference.

Jeremy Henty wrote:
> 
> This may not  be a bug in Gtk3  but it does seem connected  to Gtk3 so
> maybe you can help.
> 
> If I run any Gtk3 application  and click the resize grip at the bottom
> right then my  desktop instantly freezes - it does  not respond to any
> key or  mouse events.  There is no  such problem with termit  - a Gtk2
> application that  has a resize  grip on the  status bar at  the bottom
> right.
> 
> This happens  with my  standard icewm desktop  and also with  twm.  (I
> tried the experiment with no window manager at all, just the Gtk3 app,
> but then the mouse disappeared.  No idea why, maybe X needs requires a
> window manager to be running these days?)
> 
> During the  freeze nothing seems  to be happening.  All  the processes
> are  in sleep  (ie.   there is  an 'S'  in  the 'S'  column in  htop).
> Interestingly, the time applet in  the icewm status bar still updates.
> If I kill the Gtk3 app then everything recovers.
> 
> How can I investigate this further?
> 
> (Linux 2.6.37, Xorg 7.5, icewm 1.3.7) 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeremy Henty
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