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pezz

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From: Geelong, Australia

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 96

GNOME / Compiz + Emerald Clock Applet Issue

Hi all (first post),

I've just installed Arch (2 or 3 days ago), have GNOME + Compiz + Emerald and see this behaviour with the clock panel applet:

http://i.imgur.com/de9q4.png

The applet is on the bottom panel, but when I click to see the month / time zones I've added, the calendar etc appears near the top of the screen. It should appear near where I click at the bottom. If I use Metacity, it behaves properly (i.e. displays just above the clock).

Just curious if anyone else has seen this before I go reporting bugs (haven't found anything so far on the forums regarding this).

Cheers.

- Pezz

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 476

Re: GNOME / Compiz + Emerald Clock Applet Issue

I have this problem too. I have the panel in a vertical position on the left side of the screen, with the clock applet in the lower left hand corner. When I click on it to see the calendar, instead of popping up next to the applet in the lower left hand corner, it pops up in the upper left hand corner with the calendar going off the top of the monitor and not visible, and the list of cities appearing below.

It also works as expected for me, with metacity, but not with compiz. The problem started about a month ago, it used to work fine with compiz.

It looks like this was reported as a bug in Fedora and they decided it's a Gnome bug, not a Compiz bug, although I somehow imagine the Gnome people are going to blame Compiz.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588343

Did you ever find a solution to this or report it as a bug anywhere?

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 476

Re: GNOME / Compiz + Emerald Clock Applet Issue

Okay, I went ahead and reported a bug at Gnome:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622254

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 476

Re: GNOME / Compiz + Emerald Clock Applet Issue

Well, I resolved this problem by downgrading to:

compiz-core 0.8.4-3, compiz-decorator-gtk 0.8.4-3, compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.4-1, compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.4-2, libcompizconfig 0.8.4-1

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 476

Re: GNOME / Compiz + Emerald Clock Applet Issue

Hey Pezz,

Don't know if you're still having this problem.

After months of being annoyed by this (still unsolved) bug, I realized I could use Compiz's "Place Windows" plugin as a work around, thereby enabling me to upgrade Compiz to the most recent packages (which contain the bug, but may solve other problems for me).

Under the "Fixed Window Placement" tab, in the plugin, create a new "Windows with fixed positions" rule. In the "positioned windows" blank in the popup dialogue, put: title=Calendar. Then you'll have to do some trial and error to get the right number of pixels for the x and y positions, depending on the size of your screen.

Here's the Compiz wiki information on using this plugin:

http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Place
http://wiki.compiz.org/WindowMatching

So if Compiz really is the source of this bug (as the Gnome developers claim), ironically it's features also allow it to be it's own solution.

Hope that's helpful.

Last edited by cb474 (2011-01-30 08:29:29)

spiritwalker

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-07-15

Posts: 85

Re: GNOME / Compiz + Emerald Clock Applet Issue

cb474, thanks for the solution