Bad bug, JWM + Firefox 4/5, Seamonkey 2.1*, Opera 11[solved]

[DaveS]

Problem relates to the latest Mozilla browsers, Firefox 4*/5* and Seamonkey 2.1*
With those, activating full screen works as expected via the F11 toggle, but there is NO WAY BACK Stuck in full screen forever
SM 2.0.* is still fine, and probably FF 3.6*, though I have not tested it. They all work fine in OpenBox, so my guess is its a JWM bug.
For the future, this is a showstopper.


Edit: 28/09/11 JWM is now updated to fix this. Grab the new binary from here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 235#568235

[wuwei]

At this post
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=285

01Micko wrote:

Just an update on the F11/FF/SM/jwm bug.

If you press F11 once it goes to fullscreen. Press it twice it does nothing but flicker screen, then you are stuck. Don't press it the second time and just close the browser then next time you open it it's ok.

Maybe, yet when I do F11 in JWM and FF5 the browser window goes to full screen (as it should), but there is no function anywhere to "close the browser". Strg+Alt+backspace closes X and when restarted the browser is closed. Restart of the browser opens it at normal size.

[DaveS]

At this post
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=285

01Micko wrote:

Just an update on the F11/FF/SM/jwm bug.

If you press F11 once it goes to fullscreen. Press it twice it does nothing but flicker screen, then you are stuck. Don't press it the second time and just close the browser then next time you open it it's ok.

Maybe, yet when I do F11 in JWM and FF5 the browser window goes to full screen (as it should), but there is no function anywhere to "close the browser". Strg+Alt+backspace closes X and when restarted the browser is closed. Restart of the browser opens it at normal size.

Alt + F4 is the shortcut key combination to close the browser (or pretty much any other focused window)

[wuwei]

Thanks Dave

shows that one never stops to learn.

I'll remember that the next time.

[DaveS]

Thanks Dave

shows that one never stops to learn.

I'll remember that the next time.

Its often quicker and easier than messin' with the mouse

[pemasu]

Quote from the Ice Puppy thread.

I installed Firefox 5.0b2 and it does not have a problem with F11

[abushcrafter]

Quote from the Ice Puppy thread.

I installed Firefox 5.0b2 and it does not have a problem with F11

No its not fixed. It's the same problem in v4. Fine to begin with but after ones installs addons like FlashGet it won't exit full screen.

[BarryK]

Would one of you guys mind contacting Joe, the JWM developer, and report this?

I think that he has a bug-reporter, not sure, but he does definitely have an email address.

Ah, yes, he does have a bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=805416

But posting there might not get his attention. Um, let's see, yes, I do have his email address:

joewingATjoewingDOTnet

[BarryK]

Ha ha, while you are doing that, could you raise another issue with him?:

When we install a package, Puppy runs "jwm -restart" to rebuild the menu, which causes a big screen flicker. It would be nicer if there was a commandline option to rebuild the menu only, not completely restart jwm, something like "jwm -rebuildmenu" -- then we would not get the flicker.

[DaveS]

Would one of you guys mind contacting Joe, the JWM developer, and report this?

I think that he has a bug-reporter, not sure, but he does definitely have an email address.

Ah, yes, he does have a bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=805416

But posting there might not get his attention. Um, let's see, yes, I do have his email address:

joewingATjoewingDOTnet

Barry, Mick0 reported this to Joe the day I posted this. I added the post to allow Joe to track anything we might come up with.....

[Bruce B]

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Barry,

I'm using Lupu 5.20 with JWM and Firefox 3.6 and the F11 works perfect - it toggles Full-Screen and Normal.

My installation is different that most Puppy users insofar as ROX-Filer doesn't manage my desktop or run except when I want it.

The menus, desktop, wallpaper, taskbar and all shortcut keys are 100% JWM.

Bruce

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[DaveS]

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Barry,

I'm using Lupu 5.20 with JWM and Firefox 3.6 and the F11 works perfect - it toggles Full-Screen and Normal.

My installation is different that most Puppy users insofar as ROX-Filer doesn't manage my desktop or run except when I want it.

The menus, desktop, wallpaper, taskbar and all shortcut keys are 100% JWM.

Bruce

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Bruce.. the bug showed up with FF4* and SM2.1*
Nice to know 3 series is unaffected.

[bc272]

Ocassional blogger w/puppy, Presario 366mhz, HD Puppy 4.3.1 Just today 6/12/11 firefox updated itself to 4.01. Having same trouble as described in this forum (never thought I'd find actual admission as was hard to find talk of it) with f11 and full screen can't go back. Puppy flawless other wise and hd install no problems.

Reading comments tried the hit f11 key once or twice till screen flickers from the advice above in this page where you then see part of desktop , it goes back the way it was, then you exit, then you restart firefox and it is regular screen.

Now it seams if you hold f11 down a couple seconds it returned the menu bar. It didn't do that before, but the symbols: minus/fit to screen/plus on upper right disappears when menu appears. I can still shut it down with Ctrl + Q, and was shutting it down before with X, no status bar before to right click either so that was out but appears now.

Saw other advice to right click a tool bar to get out of full screen, but didn't see word in drop down they said should be there.

This problem fixed itself after a time before when it auto upgraded to 4.0, ran great for a while and I bragged on it, then couldn't access desktop or any other file while the browser was running, prefer my own bookmark file, maybe look something up. That was the main thing, and couldn't get hot key to work for bookmark (Ctrl + D), symbols: no go regular screen, or downsize screen--make smaller--or just move out of way, but Good News is, today it it has run fast again [/b like it did the first few days of 4.0, that's great. Been very slow last couple weeks and thought had something to do with the cyber attacks of late possibly. It's working fast now with a menu bar.
This is only browser that worked good for me in Puppy. Still has unresponsive script at msnbc.msn.com but that hasn't been bad.

So there is a bug but maybe try holding down f1 for like 2 seconds, or my other idea was to put my key files to access available on the url bar with icon, that would work too. Tried to describe this so it may be easier to fix, happened a couple months ago as I said. javascript:emoticon(':)')

[01micko]

Hmmm..

this bug is weird.

If I delete /root/.mozilla then the bug goes away alltogether. I reckon it's something to do with the legacy stuff I have been putting in /root (fontsize, homepage etc) and it seems to bork these newer mozilla browsers.EDIT: On further experimentation, the bug comes back after awhile, so deleting /root/.mozilla solves nothing, so in conclusion it is not the hard coded puppy stuff affecting anything.

Do not delete /root/.mozilla for the following work around

If you suffer the bug then bind a key to "jwm -restart", that "fixes" it in that you don't have to restart X and you wont lose work.

Here's what I do in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal

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<Key mask="A" key="F5">restart</Key>

then restart jwm through menu or manually.

When you are stuck in full screen hit Alt-F5 (sometimes twice) and the jwm title bar returns allowing you to minimise the browser at least.

[Bruce B]

Hmmm..

this bug is weird.

If I delete /root/.mozilla then the bug goes away alltogether. I reckon it's something to do with the legacy stuff I have been putting in /root (fontsize, homepage etc) and it seems to bork these newer mozilla browsers.

If you suffer the bug then bind a key to "jwm -restart", that "fixes" it in that you don't have to restart X and you wont lose work.

Here's what I do in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal

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<Key mask="A" key="F5">restart</Key>

then restart jwm through menu or manually.

The way I read what you are saying think like this

1) delete /root/.mozilla
2) when firefox restarts it makes a new /root/.mozilla
3) the bug is fixed.

I word it this way to see if this is correct understanding or if not let you add, subtract or modify.

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[RetroTechGuy]

1) delete /root/.mozilla

There probably should also be a step:

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0) Back up bookmark file

[01micko]

If I delete /root/.mozilla then the bug goes away alltogether. I reckon it's something to do with the legacy stuff I have been putting in /root (fontsize, homepage etc) and it seems to bork these newer mozilla browsers.

My work around does not require the deletion of /root/.mozilla. Apologies for miscommunication. I'll edit the post.

If you set up the key board shortcut as described then you can just restart jwm from that and you'll get the jwm title bar back allowing you to minimise the browser window. The browser does not return to normal functionality until it is restarted. At least this saves deleting bookmarks and losing work.

I am trying to get to the bottom of this bug, while we as experienced users can perform work arounds like this it would be most frustrating for a newbie.

HTH

[jpeps]

My work around does not require the deletion of /root/.mozilla. Apologies for miscommunication. I'll edit the post.

If you set up the key board shortcut as described then you can just restart jwm from that and you'll get the jwm title bar back allowing you to minimise the browser window. The browser does not return to normal functionality until it is restarted. At least this saves deleting bookmarks and losing work.

I'm using FF 5.0, and the problem is in the ./mozilla folder. Restarting JWM or X doesn't resolve it (nor does Alt-F5, etc...). I have a button that restores a .mozilla backup that works nicely. As noted, problem only occurs with JWM.

[jpeps]

Problem is in:

/root/.mozilla/firefox/o7xjvn5k.default/localstore.rdf

xxxx.default number differs for everyone. Deleting the file restores.

edit: changing sizemode to "normal from "fullscreen" in localstore.rdf also works. This happens automatically when the browser is able to be minimized.

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~/.mozilla/firefox/o7xjvn5k.default # sed -i 's/fullscreen/normal/g' localstore.rdf

fixit script:

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#!/bin/sh

DEF="$(find /root/.mozilla/ -type f | grep  "localstore.rdf")"
sed -i "s/fullscreen/normal/g" "$DEF"

[DaveS]

28/09/11 JWM is now updated to fix this. Grab the new binary from here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 235#568235