Debian Bug report logs - #476855
equalizer window off screen

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: equalizer window off screen

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:34:32 +0200

Package: audacious
Version: 1.5.0-2

Somehow I managed to loose the equalizer window. Looking at the config
file it seems that it is off screen:

:
:
pause_between_songs_time=2
snap_distance=10
equalizer_y=-4800
equalizer_x=1105
playlist_position=12
playlist_height=232
:
:

Window manager is fvwm, providing 8*3 virtual desktops. Screen size is
1920x1200, i.e. -4800 is off screen even when looking at the virtual
screen.


Regards

Harri

Message #10 received at 476855@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>

Cc: 476855@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: audacious: Equalizer window off screen

Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:48:19 -0400

"Somehow I managed to" is not very helpful. Can you give specific steps?

Regards,
John Lindgren

Message #17 received at 476855@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>

To: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

Cc: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>, 476855@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: audacious: Equalizer window off screen

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:38:34 +0200

Hi John,

On 07/02/09 03:48, John Lindgren wrote:
> "Somehow I managed to" is not very helpful. Can you give specific steps?
>
> Regards,
> John Lindgren
>
>
Sorry for the delay, but I haven't seen this problem anymore. Cannot say how
this happened the first time.

Do you think it would be possible to add some code making sure the windows
are on screen (at least for sticky mode), regardless how the problem could
be reproduced?


Regards

Harri

Message #22 received at 476855@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>, control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 476855@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: audacious: Equalizer window off screen

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:32:55 -0400

tags 476855 - moreinfo + unreproducible
thanks

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 11:38 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, but I haven't seen this problem anymore. Cannot say how
> this happened the first time.
> 
> Do you think it would be possible to add some code making sure the windows
> are on screen (at least for sticky mode), regardless how the problem could
> be reproduced?

Isn't that the job of the window manager?  XFWM4, at least, already
makes sure that some part of each window is on-screen at all times.
That seems to me a better solution than asking each and every
application to watch the screen size and make sure its windows stay
on-screen.

John Lindgren

Message #31 received at 476855@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>

To: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

Cc: 476855@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: audacious: Equalizer window off screen

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:50:44 +0200

On 09/26/09 19:32, John Lindgren wrote:
>
> Isn't that the job of the window manager?  XFWM4, at least, already
> makes sure that some part of each window is on-screen at all times.
> That seems to me a better solution than asking each and every
> application to watch the screen size and make sure its windows stay
> on-screen.
>

AFAICS audacious sets some geometry information, which is by default
accepted. Seems to me that audacious already _does_ watch its screen
size and position.

I can tell fvwm to ignore audacious' geometry information, but then
the  position claimed by audacious is _always_ ignored, regardless
whether it is on screen or not.


Regards

Harri

Message #36 received at 476855@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>

Cc: 476855@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: audacious: Equalizer window off screen

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:28:42 -0400

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 20:50 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 09/26/09 19:32, John Lindgren wrote:
> >
> > Isn't that the job of the window manager?  XFWM4, at least, already
> > makes sure that some part of each window is on-screen at all times.
> > That seems to me a better solution than asking each and every
> > application to watch the screen size and make sure its windows stay
> > on-screen.
> >
> 
> AFAICS audacious sets some geometry information, which is by default
> accepted. Seems to me that audacious already _does_ watch its screen
> size and position.
> 
> I can tell fvwm to ignore audacious' geometry information, but then
> the  position claimed by audacious is _always_ ignored, regardless
> whether it is on screen or not.

I think you didn't understand what I said.  I'm aware that Audacious
saves its window positions on exit and uses window manager hints to
restore them on startup.

Short of the user actually moving a window off-screen (which to my
knowledge is not even possible with most window managers), the only way
for a window to end up off-screen is for the screen resolution to
change.  Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that it is more appropriate
for the window manager (or perhaps whatever software is changing the
screen resolution) to move the windows of all running programs when the
screen resolution changes than for each one of those programs to detect
the change.

John Lindgren

Message #41 received at 476855-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

To: 476855-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>

Subject: Re: audacious: equalizer window off screen

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:14:51 -0500

Bug has not been reproduced in over a year, so closing.

John Lindgren

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