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Tach

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Registered: 2013-10-26

Posts: 6

Enlightenment 0.19.0 - Annoying window placement/size issues

Hi,

  I have been having this very annoying issue with enlightenment for a while now; searching for a solution, can't find anything and my knowledge of the whole X window system is limited to its usage.

  The first issue is that whenever I close a window, the first minimized one will restore by itself; it won't stay minimized....  So I keep having a window that pops up each time I close one......  I end up shading my windows instead of minimizing them.......

  The second issue is bad.  I use Quartus software (I hope someone is using this....), each window I open in the IP catalog (or QSYS) will come up wrong.  It will have a size of 1xHUGE or simply 1x1.  When size is 1xHUGE it is completely on the left side of my screen, whowing its glamorous window decoration and a larger top-right square that wonldn't be able to get smaller than that.  I resize but the window is blank.  I must restart enlightenment for the window's content to appear.  When it is 1x1, well.... the only thing that shows is the top-right window decoration.

  I can work but this is very.... very ......very annoying.....  Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Tach

89c51

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Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 741

Re: Enlightenment 0.19.0 - Annoying window placement/size issues

I don't see the first issue but have you tried deleting your ~/.e WARNING: this will erase all your e related settings

As for the second i have no idea, i don't use this software.

Tach

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Registered: 2013-10-26

Posts: 6

Re: Enlightenment 0.19.0 - Annoying window placement/size issues

Hi,

  Sorry but I have to bump this one back.

  I did erase all settings (.e and .elementary) but the issue persists.  This happends on both of my machines (Intel graphic for desktop and Optimus for laptop; so yes, Intel for both).

  FVWM does not exhibit the issue but then again, no automagic placement is enabled.  I think this is the problem here...

  Also, on my desktop, if I restart enlightenment, I get a background but nothing else; no task bar, no pager, no menus.  I have to kill enlightenment/X.  I am not sure e19 is the root cause; I would be geared toward one of my libraries/config of system (dbus?)

  I don't know how to debug this and logs don't help me much.

  Any help on how to diagnose this would be appreciated before I switch to KDE ....

Update:

  On my desktop, I forgot I was on the -git from AUR.  Getting back to the official package restored my capability to restart Enlightenment.  Now I have to figure out the blank windows thing because it happens to more than the originally stated software.  Elightenment's windows itself are getting weird sizes and positions.

Thanks,

Tach.

Last edited by Tach (2014-12-09 10:35:39)