[compiz] A couple of bugs...

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Thu Mar 1 07:17:14 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:02 +0100, Vasek Potocek wrote:
> > 2. Resizing a KDE-Window (independently of the
> > window-decorator -- just a kde window like konqueror)
> > doesn't work properly. When grabbing one edge all
> > other edges change position. Only when you use the
> > bottom right corner it works as expected. Strangely
> > GNOME/Gtk windows work as expected.
> 
> I'd add to this point that this is not only KDE-specific, I can reliably reproduce the described behaviour with xterm 
> window. I have once worked it around using XGetWindowAttributes instead of rd->w->attrib in each call of 
> resizeUpdateWindowSize, but this is both too ugly to be really suggested and still not 100% reliable (the bottom edge 
> tends to vary +-1 line).

A proper fix for this is in head now.

> 
> There is still another problem that worries me - sometimes the Shade/Unshade function causes the window to jump 
> vertically, about randomly. The window ends up at approx. half its height after Shade and a little above or under its 
> original position after Unshade, but sometimes half above the top of screen, too.
> This is not restricted to any types of windows, but occasional in the sense that sometimes it just does happen and 
> sometimes it doesn't on the same window. I didn't investigate this much, but I have suspicion it's related to whether a 
> window is in more or less "stable" position, meaning whether it wobbles a bit or not when its caption is clicked.
> I'm sorry if this has been discussed here or somewhere in the past, I don't know it.

Yes, it's a problem with the wobbly plugin. I'll get this one fixed
soon.

- David



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