Some apps displaying on all virtual desktops. How can I stop this erroneous behaviour ?

Stephen McGregor lists at stephen-mcgregor.com
Fri Sep 4 07:46:44 PDT 2009 

Hi

Some apps I am running display their windows :
*  on all virtual desktops
*  above all other windows, including their own menus

Google earth and ubigraph are examples. Google earth only shows its
main window on all desktops, the decorations, menu bars etc only appear
on the virtual desktop on which the app was started.  Ubigraph looses
its window manager decorations after switching and returning to a
virtual desktop, and displays itself on all desktops. 

There are no complaints or notes added to Xorg or any other log, well,
actually, googleearth complains about a missing font, but I don't think
that that is the crux of the problem.

I have posted on the list for the window manager that I am running
(enlightenment), and the response was that it has nothing to do with the
window manager and that other people running the same window manager are
running google earth without any problems.

Maybe it is an xserver / xorg configuration error ?

If someone has encountered this before, it would be great to know the
solution. 

I am running debian testing 2.6.26-2-686 , on a PC i686 (dell latitude
D610 laptop)

Thank you for any help you can share

cheers

Stephen




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X.Org X Server 1.4.2
Release Date: 11 June 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-11)
Current Operating System: Linux golden 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21
04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 20 February 2009  03:06:29AM
 
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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Sep  1 18:54:16 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Configured Monitor"
(==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen".
        Using the first device section listed.
(**) |   |-->Device "Configured Video Device"
(==) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse"
(==) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
        Using the first mouse device.
(==) The core keyboard device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
        Using the first keyboard device.
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) No FontPath specified.  Using compiled-in default.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
        /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
(==) RgbPath set to "/etc/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Loader magic: 0x81e3800
(II) Module ABI versions:
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        X.Org Video Driver: 2.0
        X.Org XInput driver : 2.0
        X.Org Server Extension : 0.3
        X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(--) using VT number 7

(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,2590 card 1028,0182 rev 03 class 06,00,00
hdr 00
...skipping...
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event6
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
(EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
(EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
(EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
(EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
(EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
(EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x00800000 (pgoffset
2048)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 1 at 0x00c00000 (pgoffset
3072)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 2 at 0x01800000 (pgoffset
6144)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 3 at 0x01c00000 (pgoffset
7168)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 4 at 0x02000000 (pgoffset
8192)
(II) intel(0): Fixed memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x00000000-0x0001ffff: ring buffer (128 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x00020000-0x0061ffff: compressed frame buffer (6144 kB,
0x000000003f820000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x00620000-0x00620fff: compressed ll buffer (4 kB,
0x000000003fe20000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x00621000-0x0062afff: HW cursors (40 kB,
0x000000003fe21000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x0062b000-0x00632fff: logical 3D context (32 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x00633000-0x00633fff: overlay registers (4 kB,
0x000000003fe33000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000:            end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x00800000-0x00bfffff: front buffer (4096 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x00c00000-0x017fffff: exa offscreen (12288 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x01800000-0x01bfffff: back buffer (4096 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x01c00000-0x01ffffff: depth buffer (4096 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x02000000-0x03ffffff: classic textures (32768 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x10000000:            end of aperture
(II) intel(0): Selecting standard 18 bit TMDS pixel format.
(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0):   Pipe A is off
(II) intel(0):   Display plane A is now disabled and connected to pipe
A.
(II) intel(0):   Pipe B is on
(II) intel(0):   Display plane B is now enabled and connected to pipe B.
(II) intel(0):   Output VGA is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0):   Output LVDS is connected to pipe B
(II) intel(0):   Output TMDS-1 is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0):   Output TV is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event6
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
FreeType: couldn't find encoding 'iso8859-14' for
'/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Andale_Mono.ttf'
FreeType: couldn't find encoding 'iso8859-14' for
'/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Andale_Mono.ttf'

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