Bug 12584

Summary: Mathematica 6.0 produces extra windows under compiz
Product: xorg Reporter: Andy Neitzke <neitzke>
Component: App/compizAssignee: David Reveman <reveman>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Andy Neitzke 2007-09-26 22:31:49 UTC 
Upon starting Mathematica 6.0 under compiz, in addition to the usual Mathematica windows I get one large extra window, which is empty (painted white), has blank titlebar and cannot be closed (although it can be resized).  When I start doing calculations a second extra window appears.  These extra windows are absent under other window managers e.g. kwin.

This problem has been noted by a few others, e.g.

http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5
http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/May/msg01137.html

I am using Gentoo and the binary nvidia drivers, xorg 7.3 and a recent git version of compiz (with the compiz-fusion plugins).
Comment 1 CyberOrg 2007-12-18 22:35:31 UTC 
Novell bugzilla reference:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275400
Comment 2 Kristian Lyngstøl 2009-02-07 02:11:18 UTC 
Bugs.opencompositing.org is now the official bug tracker. I reoepened the bug there.

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