Demo stack not working in Linux

[Scott Raney]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 David Bovill <david.bovill at opn-technologies.com> wrote:
> 
> Doesn't work for me on SuSE either :(
> 
> Thought it was xanim - but.... maybe not?

No, it's apparently just a conflict in the way the KDE (didn't try
Gnome) window manager stacks windows: it's putting the backdrop window
on *top* of the other windows.  Worse, KDE at some point completely
lost the ability to show a window with no title bar, ruining many of
the other animation effects in the demo stack.

All this stuff works fine on other UNIX systems, it's just the
"progress" those wonderful Open Source developers are inflicting on us
that is making life difficult (and don't even get me started on the
way they've bungled the libc/glibc version issue, which makes the
Windows "DLL Hell" problem seem like small potatoes because it only
affects a few apps and not *all* of them like libc/glibc version
incompatibilities).

The workaround is going to be not have it show the backdrop window on
Linux systems.  If you want to see the demo, you can do this yourself
with "edit script of stack mcdemo2.mc" in the MB and just comment out
the section at the bottom of the preOpenStack handler where it sets
the backdrop.  Then "save stack mcdemo2.mc" and then "go mcdemo2.mc"
to run it.
  Regards,
    Scott

PS: We never got a bug report on this to support at metacard.com or
bugs at metacard.com, but should have ;-)

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