[Bugs] #1060 UNSP: Intermittent Metacity layering issues
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#1060: Intermittent Metacity layering issues
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Reporter: garycmartin | Owner: tomeu
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: 0.86
Component: sugar | Version: 0.85.x
Severity: Critical | Resolution:
Keywords: | Distribution: Unspecified
Status_field: Needinfo |
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Comment(by garycmartin):
Replying to [comment:6 alsroot]:
> Replying to [ticket:1060 garycmartin]:
> > Opening a ticket to track Metacity layering issues. The frame, a
number of frame menus, and the object chooser are getting intermittently
clobbered. I'm still trying to find a reliable series reproducible steps
to trigger:
> >
> > - Frame pop-up menus go behind Activity windows. In 'desktop' layer
views (neighbourhood/group/home) the frame menus appear fine, but
switching back to an Activity the menus are inaccessible again.
> could you post exact steps, for me it looks fine w/ git versions
I can confirm this is still a major issue with latest pull from git. It is
never a problem if you are in a desktop view (neighbourhood, group, home);
it only appears when your in an activity view. To reproduce try these
steps:
1) open some activities (say, Log, Terminal, Write) you can reproduce with
just one, but easier with more
2) in any of the open activities try to access it's top frame activity
menu
3) often the tool icon will light, but the actual palette does not show
(my assumption is it's hidden behind the activity window)
4) if the palette showed correctly (sometimes it does work) switch to one
of the other activities and try again
5) once you've seen the palette issue, switching to home view and trying
the palette again will show that it displays fine when no Activity window
is covering the screen.
All palettes that appear from Frame toolbar icons can exhibit this issue
(Copy, Device, Buddy, Zoom views, Activity palettes).
>
> > - The entire frame fails to appear in all views (need to reboot after
this one, perhaps not a layering bug?)
> also, what exact actions to reproduce bug
Sorry this one is very intermittent, it may well not be a layering issue
and could be a separate bug. I did see it 2 days ago so it's still about,
just very rare. It seems to happen after Stopping or Resuming an activity,
but that's just a guess from the perhaps 4-5 times I've seen this. Note:
because Xephyr/X bug for me is 95% not accepting Sugar specific keys, I
can't switch to other views one the frame stops showing, so it's hard for
me to test further when it does happen (and I just have to force quit).
> > - Object Chooser dialogue appears behind the Activity window that
requested it (seen this a number of times in Memorize when trying to load
a game).
> I can reproduce this issue only if activities omited "parent" argument
for ObjectChooser(), w/ "parent" it works fine
OK, I will try and test this again to confirm. FWIW Labyrinth doesn't
currently used the parent argument as I could find no clean way of passing
the activity self all the way down through the class and event structures.
Will need some invasive changes there to fix :-(
Thanks for the feedback!
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1060#comment:7>
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