[xmonad] Issue 527 in xmonad: Google Hangouts screen sharing crashes

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New issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen sharing crashes
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

1. Open a new Google Hangout

2. Press "Share your screen"

3. The window for selecting the window to share appears for a fraction of a
second and then the hangout crashes.

I am using xmonad 0.11 on Gentoo without any additional configuration
changes. The same functionality works with other window managers, also
other tiling ones.

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Comment #1 on issue 527 by ***@egobeer.nl: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

Same here

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Comment #2 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

I have the same issue

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Comment #3 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

Same issue happens for me on Arch with 0.11.

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Comment #4 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

My entire team started observing this behavior across multiple platforms
(Wndows 7 and OSX) as of a few days ago (10/21/2014). When attempting to
share the screen, Chrome crashes.

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Comment #5 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

How to solve this problem?

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Comment #6 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

I have the same problem, I cannot share my screen anymore.

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Comment #7 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

I have the same issue, I attach some debug information.

~~~
[024:306] 0x7f814a62e670: C->F:
["setshareoptions","","c17395517021261106635_NMS",0,{"fps":5,"maxPixels":2400000}]
[024:306] 0x7f814a62e670: C->F:
["share-pick","","c17395517021261106635_NMS",0,{"titleHint":null,"onlyShowHintedTitles":false,"onlyShowDesktops":false}]
The program 'GoogleTalkPlugin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'.
(Details: serial 400 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
~~~

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Comment #8 on issue 527 by ***@gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

I have had this issue with many different tiling window managers, except
for i3. On the dwm mailing list someone suggested this fix:

xprop -root -f _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING 32x -set _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING
0

Maybe it is relevant to xmonad too, I haven't actually tried it.

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Comment #9 on issue 527 by ***@kyriba.com: Google Hangouts screen
sharing crashes
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527

xprop -root -f _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING 32x -set _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING
0
This hack fixes the problem even for XMonad