258016 - mozilla-xremote-client 'ping()' doesn't return until browser-app gets an event (Linux)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Ernst Sjostrand]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)

this is probably not specific to some browser version, 
tried with firefox nightly, mozilla 1.7 and firefox 0.9.3

I'm running unstable gtk+, version 2.5.2, and everything else from the latest
gnome rc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox or mozilla 
2. mozilla-xremote-client -a any 'ping()'
3. don't move

Actual Results:  
mozilla-xremote-client -a any 'ping()'
does not return, until the browser get's an event of some kind.
moving the mouse over the browser window, or clicking anywhere on the screen works.

Expected Results:  
it should return immideately.

Gentoo Linux Portage 2.0.51_pre20 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+)

Comment 1

[Ernst Sjostrand]

Has anyone realized that these products (FF 1.0, Moz 1.8) will be released at
the same time as Gnome 2.8, so making them work with GTK+ 2.6 out of the box
could be a good thing?

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Not blocking anything, we don't even have a diagnosis yet.

Comment 3

[Ernst Sjostrand]

Old, can't see this problem now!