black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
- Subject: black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:43:11 +0200
- Acceptlanguage: de-DE
- Thread-topic: black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
Hi,
ever since I started using XQuartz + Wine on my "early 2009" NVidia
Mac Mini, I've experienced occasional black screen background in the
Finder, typically after resuming from sleep.
All windows and menus would render correctly, it's only the Finder desktop
icons and desktop background picture that were missing resp. all black.
Exiting X11.app always restores the correct background (a photograph
chosen at random within a directory set in system preferences).
Nowadays, with OSX 10.5.8 + latest patches + XQuartz 2.6.1, the
situation has degraded. It used to be a rare event, difficult to
reproduce, occurring at most when switching users and/or
resuming from sleep. Now it's so systematic as to become annoying --
which is why I'm turning to the mailing list for help -- yet still not
easily reproducible (as if it only happens after some time of
inactivity).
Second, although the Finder's desktop icons are drawn (on that black
background void of my pictures), they don't react to clicks!
Icons within a Finder's window work fine.
Everything returns to normal after I exit X11.app.
I've found no open ticket about such an issue. Perhaps
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/388 is related?
Did anybody else ever experience this behaviour?
The screen saver is set to draw splines in Preferences.
XQuartz is *not* set to open its own screen.
Wine is the only client of X11.app, however the black background never
happens while Wine is active. It looks like it only happens after
some idle time, long after Wine exited.
I'm using OSX 10.5.8 + latest updates + XQuartz 2.6.1 + Wine + gcc
etc. to compile Wine + Suspicious Package + Grand Perspective +
*no other* package, app, widget or fancy foreign code.
IIRC, the black screen issue has always been present AFAICT,
i.e. XQuartz 2.3.3, 2.3.3.2 , XQuartz 2.5.x.
Thank you for your help,
Jörg Höhle
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