Request for verification of Bug in ImageMagick.

[Ben Stringer]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 16:52, Mike Klinke wrote:
> I'd like to know if anyone else can lock up their system using the 
> sequence below.  If so, I'll add this to bugzilla for ImageMagick 
> under Fedora.
> 
> ======================
> 
> display <some image_name>
> 
> click on the image to bring up the "commands" menu
> select "Miscellany"
> select "Preferences"
> select "Display image on a centered background"
> select "Apply"
> Image will re-draw
> right click image to bring up "shortcuts" menu
> select Image Info
> 
> At this point I see an hour glass that never goes away. I cannot bring 
> up the task bar or <alt>-tab to any other application that's running.  
> I have to <ctrl>-<alt>-F1 to a console window, login and issue a kill 
> command to kill the "display" process.
> 
> ======================

I get a strange result, but not your hang. After 3 seconds of no
interaction with the window "display" brings up, it closes. This does
not seem to be documented as how "display" should behave.

> 
> Note: you'll have to edit "/root/.display"  file to set:
> 
> display.backdrop False
> 
> to reverse the actions above.

So you are getting this problem when running as root? Do you see the
same thing running as a less priveleged user?

Cheers, Ben
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