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hrkristian

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Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 34

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

On one hand it's really annoying getting a core dump every five to ten minutes...

On the other hand, GNOME Shell really flies when it's restarted every five to ten minutes.

Regression, bug, or feature?

piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

You got it right. That's why it's called stable release...

For me it seems I can minimize the restarts of gnome-shell by resizing the window I am about to close - for me it's double-clicking on he top window bar - and then close it. It's an awful workaround but at least I can work with it for the moment - that is if I am not going quickly and accidentally close a full screened app out of habit...

p.

Last edited by piedro (2017-10-08 17:17:42)

shsina

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Registered: 2016-10-22

Posts: 47

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Same here, Why such problems should be exists in stable release?

Last edited by shsina (2017-10-08 17:55:52)

Mons1990

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From: Pianoro (BO) - Italy

Registered: 2012-04-23

Posts: 102

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

The issue is probably a code adaption for wayland and "who cares about X11"

The ones with a NVIDIA <=340xx driver compatible like me

Last edited by Mons1990 (2017-10-08 17:52:42)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

I guess that got lost in translation, but I consider "who cares about X11" to be part of the issue - certainly not my personal opinion.
(It implies "regression", regression means lousy QM and lousy QM is never a good sign of anything)

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Durden

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Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 261

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

I'm having this issue as well. Intel graphics, both xorg and wayland. Thought it was just me. Hope we see a fix soon.

lpr1

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 68

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Now here is a full thread of people saying "me too" and bumping the thread (don't do that), yet I see no link to an upstream bug report.

Has anybody bothered looking upstream for a bug, and if there is none opened one? That would probably help far more than "bumping" here.

I disagree that "me too" isn't helpful (it can point out at how widespread problem is), but I do agree with the rest of your post.

It have nothing to do with nvidia drivers, I use AMD/ATI radeon/mesa drivers and have same problem. At first I tought I could easily reproduce it with Dolphin emulator, however, it is too random, but dolphin-emu crashes gnome-shell quite fast (as closing firefox maximized window after visiting youtube for a while for example).

Last edited by lpr1 (2017-10-09 01:29:41)

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

Posts: 318

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

I disagree that "me too" isn't helpful (it can point out at how widespread problem is), but I do agree with the rest of your post.

I didn't want to say "me too" is unhelpful, I actually think it is. It just struck me as odd that so many people were involved, yet no upstream report

lpr1

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 68

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

@phw Yeah I agree with that point , O usually wait more competent people to do bug reports, and do it myself only if it's specific to me, I guess others follow similar principle .

lpr1

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 68

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Reverting mutter to earlier version solves the problem for me, or build it with this commit     aea66ddff6fd91edf10499b8fd156e0663f2f271

Last edited by lpr1 (2017-10-09 13:11:30)

kouros17

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Registered: 2014-09-07

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Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

The same here...downgrading mutter to 3.26.0+6%2Bg26cd031be-2 the error is not displayed.

lpr1

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 68

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

There is a patch that fixes the problem in bug report from this topic posted earlier.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788666

peter.berg

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Registered: 2017-10-09

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Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

I've changed the official PKGBUILD for mutter-3.26 and added the patch from bugzilla. It seems to work like a charm:
https://github.com/LordPong/mutter-3.26-fixed

Kateryna

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Registered: 2017-10-08

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Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

I've changed the official PKGBUILD for mutter-3.26 and added the patch from bugzilla. It seems to work like a charm:
https://github.com/LordPong/mutter-3.26-fixed

I just tested your patch and it works! Thanks!
Is it a good idea to report a ticket at bugs.archlinux.org so that maintainers can apply it and rebuild the package?
Can you do it please?

tetrox

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 9

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

I've changed the official PKGBUILD for mutter-3.26 and added the patch from bugzilla. It seems to work like a charm:
https://github.com/LordPong/mutter-3.26-fixed

I just tested your patch and it works! Thanks!
Is it a good idea to report a ticket at bugs.archlinux.org so that maintainers can apply it and rebuild the package?
Can you do it please?

It's already in the process: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788666

bboozzoo

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 125

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Interesting observation. My work laptop is running openSUSE Tumbleweed and I have not observed this problem on either 3.26.0 or 3.26.1. FWIW changes in mutter package: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view … s?expand=1

JohnD87

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Registered: 2016-07-18

Posts: 10

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Hey everybody,

i have the same issue and it is unbelievable annoying.

Could anybody tell me how to build a package with the fixed mutter version?
I have all dev tools on my system and i have experiences with compiling software from github but i never made any pacman packages before.

Thanks

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 755

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

@JohnD87 You have a link with a PKGBUILD that builds a patched version of mutter just few messages above. As for how to use said PKGBUILD, I suggest consulting Arch Wiki.

Last edited by Xabre (2017-10-10 10:30:10)

JohnD87

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Registered: 2016-07-18

Posts: 10

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

@JohnD87 You have a link with a PKGBUILD that builds a patched version of mutter just few messages above. As for how to use said PKGBUILD, I suggest consulting Arch Wiki.

Thanks. Worked fine.

RobertoOriadne

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Registered: 2017-10-10

Posts: 1

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Workaround, disable animations.

Airei6oh

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Registered: 2017-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

Seems like the patch was pushed and is available in arch's repo. Nice.

Last edited by Airei6oh (2017-10-10 17:57:28)

papa33

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Registered: 2014-06-14

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

peter.berg's package solved completely the issue for me, but today's update introduces it again...

tetrox

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Registered: 2017-10-08

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Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

@papa33 It's because it doesn't include the latest 3 commits, including the fix yet, just reinstall the old package.

Airei6oh

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Registered: 2017-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

my apologies papa33, tetrox is right, the patch isn't included... yet I currently have mutter 3.26.1+6+g425df31cf-1 running and I don't have this bug anymore.. Weird.

Last edited by Airei6oh (2017-10-10 17:56:45)

papa33

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Registered: 2014-06-14

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome 3.26 restarting, when I close any fullscreen app from overview

3.26.1+7+g41f7a5fdf-1 new update fixes the issue for me.