Re: black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
Re: black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
- Subject: Re: black desktop background missing picture, desktop icons not working
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 08:59:02 -0700
On May 16, 2011, at 06:43, email@hidden wrote:
> 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).
X11 does not change anything with Finder. Are you using a background window or X11 desktop manager?
Are you running X11 in fullscreen mode? If so, Finder and Dock should be hidden. Check your X11 preferences. You can use cmd-opt-a to enter and leave fullscreen.
> 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?
Sounds similar... what X11 applications are you running? Any screensavers?
> 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.
Please run 'xlsclients' ... also use 'xwininfo -all' and click on the window.
> 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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