Xfce bug might cause screen damage
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Probably the funniest bug report you'll read this year
A bug in Xfce is causing damage to some user's PC displays, and a fix is yet to be accepted upstream. Read on for more on this clawful news.
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@Zecc said in Xfce bug might cause screen damage:
Probably the funniest bug report you'll read this year
A bug in Xfce is causing damage to some user's PC displays, and a fix is yet to be accepted upstream. Read on for more on this clawful news.
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I like the patch.
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@boomzilla Seems Xfce's bugtracker is struggling.
Is it the dog background seen in the article?
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@JBert It shows up for me.
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@JBert yes.
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@Zecc this site shouldn't be called OMG Ubuntu. This should be called OMG FUCK!!!
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@JBert Shouldn't the dog be sleeping?
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Objection: cats don't give a shit about black blotches vaguely shaped like a mouse. They only chase moving things.
If the mouse shape moves through the screen on startup I could definitely see
millionsthousandsa few dozen Xfce screens getting scratched by cats, otherwise, the guy's just a big fat phony.
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Thanks for the heads up. I use xfce on all my VM-s.
Hopefully someone adopts my former cat before the shelter puts it down.
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Incidentally, they really need to port this to Linux:
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@anonymous234 Just type +L whenever you leave your PC. Works on most linux distributions as well.
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@PleegWat You'd think so but
Bug #1463112 “Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm” : Bugs : unity package : Ubuntu
14.04, locked screen to go to lunch, upon return from lunch cat was sitting on keyboard, login screen was frozen & unresponsive. To replicate: In unity hit ctrl-alt-l, place keyboard on chair. Sit on keyboard. Resolution: Switched to virtual terminal, restarted lightdm, lost all open windows...
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Why didn't anyone here @mention me?
Lethal wallpapers are my territory.
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@aliceif you would love the apocalyptically bad websites thread
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@groo said in Xfce bug might cause screen damage:
@aliceif you would love the apocalyptically bad websites thread
I'm pretty sure @aliceif's homepage is Ling's Cars. If not, it should be.
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@anonymous234 said in Xfce bug might cause screen damage:
@PleegWat You'd think so but
Bug #1463112 “Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm” : Bugs : unity package : Ubuntu
14.04, locked screen to go to lunch, upon return from lunch cat was sitting on keyboard, login screen was frozen & unresponsive. To replicate: In unity hit ctrl-alt-l, place keyboard on chair. Sit on keyboard. Resolution: Switched to virtual terminal, restarted lightdm, lost all open windows...
