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 -- .O. Ben Stringer ..O ben@xxxxxxxxxxx OOO linux|java|majitek|gnu
