92150 - Window title followed by garbage characters

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Richard Moonick]

When using the latest nightly for Linux on a fresh install of RedHat 7.1, the
window title is often (but not always) followed by seemingly random characters,
such as "@", "@X", "ff that", or "tring,i!".  Reloading a page changes or
removes these characters.
For example, my window of Slashdot is currently titled: "Slashdot: News for
nerds, stuff that matters - Mozilla {Build ID: 2001072412}tring,i!".
I haven't been able to find a clear pattern of when these characters get
truncated onto the end of the title, or what the characters represent, but they
have consistantly appeared on the nightly linux builds for the past two weeks.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

a regression of bug 88384?

Comment 2

[Francisco León]

Must be. 7/21 branch is fine
Trunk?

Comment 3

[Con Kolivas]

I've had this for builds for about two weeks. Currently my linux build
2001072021 has been doing this also.

Comment 4

[Richard Moonick]

I just checked out the 2001072608 linux build and the problem seems to have
disapeared (no titles with garbage characters after an hour of browsing).  Did
some clever person fix this in the past day?

Comment 5

[Richard Moonick]

I take back my last comment -- I think the problem went away when I upgraded to
the latest CVS of KDE.  On my system with KDE 2.2beta1, the problem still
exists.  Could there be an incompatibility with KDE that's screwing up the
window titles?

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->Apps

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

perhaps dup of bug 88384...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88384 ***

Comment 8

[Richard Moonick]

Attachment: Screen shot of windows

Comment 9

[Richard Moonick]

I do not know all the technical details of bug 88384 (only what's on the bug's
page), so I can't be sure if this bug really is a duplicate.  However, I can be
sure that the problem hasn't been resolved yet; see the screen shot attachment
for a picture of a bunch of windows I opened at random.  Not all of them are
corrupted, but most are. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 freq 2 with no modifications
right now, and have had the same trouble with every Linux distro/box I've tried.
 (RedHat 7.1 full install, Mandrake 8.0 default settings, RedHat 6.2 default
settings; KDE 2.2.1, KDE 2.2alpha2, KDE 2.2beta1, KDE CVS recent, for software;
PIII 500MHz Dell machine and AMD 1 GHz custom built machine, for hardware).

This bug does not occur with any of the Windows machines / mozilla builds I've
tried.

This problem started after bug 88384 was resolved.  The two forms of window
title corruption (the first from bug 88384, the second type of corruption still
existing with this bug) are different, as you can see from the screenshot. 
Where the first bug garbled the existing title, this bug *only* appends
characters to the end of the title (which it doesn't always do, but usually does).

This bug occurs is 0.9.3, and all the nightly builds for the past month.

If more system info or screenshots would be of any help, please let me know.

Comment 10

[Richard Moonick]

Well, I guess that this is a bug in KDE, as mentioned in bug 88384, which
hopefully will be fixed in version 2.2.  However, I still think that Mozilla
should be patched to get around this bug, even though it's not its fault.  A
fixed KDE release still isn't out, and even after it is, most people will still
be using the older versions for a while.  Since Mozilla is the only application
I've seen that exposes this bug (even Netscape 6.1 gets around it), it will look
like a very ugly bug in Mozilla.
Is there any chance that we can get a Mozilla work-around, for those of us who
can't upgrade KDE on all of our systems?

Comment 11

[Aleksey Nogin]

IMHO, this should be closed as "would not fix" or a duplicate of bug 9449. KDE
2.2.2 is out and as far as I know (haven't tried it myself yet) contains a fix
for this.

Comment 12

[Aleksey Nogin]

Just upgraded to KDE 2.2 and this bug is indeed fixed there. WFM?

Comment 13

[Ilya Konstantinov]

Certainly WFM. The bug is in kdecore's netwm implementation assuming 
UTF8_STRINGs are always null-terminated while the standard dictates otherwise. 
I fixed that in 2.2.

Comment 14

[Aleksey Nogin]

OK, WFM it is.

Comment 15

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 182651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***