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2012-08-07 10:28
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i have never, ever, ever seen this. |
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That points to the culprit: I'm running the Xmonad tiling window manager, which seems to mishandle the splash window. It certainly does not recognize it as something to float by default, and this seems to cause the overwriting text somehow (maybe because the window gets resized by the window manager when it's mapped -- or maybe not, because I heard that X applications must not assume that their windows get mapped at the requested size). If I run Ardour without a window manager, then the status text at the bottom changes cleanly and the splash window floats at the center of the screen. Now I suppose there is some standard means to designate splash windows, so that the window manager can treat them accordingly. For example, the "What would you like to do?" dialog is (correctly) not tiled under Xmonad. Maybe the splash window should be designated as a dialog window, too? |
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should be fixed in r13492. splash-screen window is marked as such (WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_SPLASHSCREEN) `xwininfo -all` [..] Window type: Splash Window state: Skip Pager Skip Taskbar Above [..] Please confirm and close the issue. |
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Thanks, the splash window isn't tiled anymore and the status text is drawn properly (r13494). While the redraw issue feels more fundamental than this, the symptoms are certainly cured. Also, the "What would you like to do?" dialog *is* tiled, I don't know whether I simply mixed things up previously or it really changed meanwhile. I'm fine with it either way. |
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I confirm that the issue is fixed in r13494. Thanks! |
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Actually, I think the splash screen under Xmonad was fixed by r13111, which made that window non-resizable. Anyway, marking it with a splash hint is surely appropriate. Also, the startup dialog became resizable in r13101, which made Xmonad tile it instead of floating, so I remembered correctly, it's just a lot of changes done in a short time. So everything is all right, hope I can close this issue again after adding this note... |
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Yes I can. :) Thanks again! |
- Anonymous
