evolution leaving behind a ghost window

[Viorel Tabara]

I started noticing this after upgrading to F29. It happens occasionally 
and only when sending a message (I use Ctrl-Enter to send).

Right-click on window on the task bar and select close brings up the 
force close dialog box and saying 'yes' it closes the Evolution main 
window.

'xkill' which I've come across helped with cleaning up the workspace:

   omiday ~ $ xwininfo

   xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
            would like information by clicking the
            mouse in that window.

   xwininfo: Window id: 0x108e021 (has no name)

   Absolute upper-left X:  176
   Absolute upper-left Y:  50
   Relative upper-left X:  176
   Relative upper-left Y:  50
   Width: 1281
   Height: 833
   Depth: 24
   Visual: 0x21
   Visual Class: TrueColor
   Border width: 0
   Class: InputOutput
   Colormap: 0x20 (not installed)
   Bit Gravity State: StaticGravity
   Window Gravity State: StaticGravity
   Backing Store State: NotUseful
   Save Under State: no
   Map State: IsViewable
   Override Redirect State: no
   Corners:  +176+50  -463+50  -463-197  +176-197
   -geometry 1281x833+176+50

   omiday ~ $ xkill -id 0x108e021
   xkill:  killing creator of resource 0x108e021

The ghost window can be resized, and it would "remember" the contents of 
a window from another workspace when I select it, switch to another 
window in another workspace and return.

Anyone have similar issues?

-Viorel

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

>  Anyone have similar issues? 
It happened once for me with Thunar but I couldn't reproduce it. The
window in question was a progress dialog for a file copy over MTP, and
when I tried to xkill it and saw nothing happened I ran `xprop | grep PID`
to find it belonged to no process.

If you can reproduce this bug with Evolution, you should file a new bug
on rhbz.


Dridi

[Viorel Tabara]

On Sat, 2018-12-29 at 11:58 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
>  I ran `xprop | grep PID` to find it belonged to no process. 
>  If you can reproduce this bug with Evolution, you should file a new 
>  bug on rhbz. 
It's a random occurrence. The good news is that it hasn't happened after 
the last update.

Dridi, thanks for the feedback and the 'xprop' tip.

-Viorel