[CLOSED]JWM Desktop Updates to V755(Release) and V910(Test)

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#141 Post by scsijon »

@jasper, hi

Is it only those two apps or do all apps start to the right?

Also, if you shrink them a little bit more, do they still move right?

before I put a problem to joe, I had best get some further info as I cannot duplicate your problem on any of my boxes, although i don't have precise 5.6 loaded anywhere, downloading one now. By the way there is a 5.6.1 bugfix out.

Jasper

#142 Post by Jasper »

Hi again,

I reduced abiword to 900 x 675 and dillo to 800 x 600 and
checked the pre and post v 768 positions with a pixel ruler
and saw no movement, Since you have almost certainly hit the
nail on head and as they are the only apps I want to and can
open in a specific position I did not try to test more apps.

I did post in BarryK's Precise 5.6/5.6.1 at the very bottom
of page 5 about the superb speed increase in JWM menus
thanks to technosaurus - I expect Joe and yourself already
know about that.

I will not be suggesting to BarryK that there may be a
minor bug in Precise 5.6/5.6.1 (though I do hope npierce
will update Barry on his abiword non-US spell-checker
problem fixes).

To be honest I have never used the layer optioms in earnest
and I gather JWM v768 Test has some speed increases and
a nice right click shade option. I only use JWM and ROX so
I'm very pleased Joe is making improvements and although
I was and am happy to try to test v768 I have no idea of
any other changes.

My regards

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#143 Post by session »

I fear that my request for easier window minimization (issue #45) may make it easier to break nested windows. Ideally, when all of the windows in a stack have individual minimize buttons, you'd expect to be able to minimize all of them using the taskbar entry as well. But when you're dealing with windows that cannot be closed until the child window is closed... things are easier to break.

This can be duplicated in QtWeb. Options -> Advanced -> Search Providers -> Add New. Minimize and restore the main window several times, and one of the nested windows will break. Granted, you had the ability to minimize multiple nested windows before issue #45 was resolved, you just couldn't do it from the taskbar. But I can't duplicate this in v574.
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#144 Post by scsijon »

@jasper, I think your problem has been fixed by joe with the latest snapshot.

@session, Yours may also be ok now, joe has done some fixes that may have sorted it all out.

I shall build, test and make available a V772 test build tomorrow, I have to go out tonight to a CFA meeting.

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#145 Post by `f00 »

ChangeLog<---(from current all the way back to 2005!) says
No more custom cursors for close/minimize/maximize.
as of Fri May 31 18:42:46 2013 :|

If you like that feature, it can be swapped back in with the src/cursor.c from 762 .. doesn't seem to break anything in 772 as far as I can tell. Of course whether the custom hover cursors look 'right' depends on your cursor set ;)

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#146 Post by scsijon »

I have uploaded a test version 775, have fun!

Jasper

#147 Post by Jasper »

Hi,

Thank you for v775 (Test). but the movement persists.

My regards

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#148 Post by session »

...meanwhile, my problem is fixed.

Resizing while maximized is now disabled... I've used that quite often to set window size, but it became redundant after recent versions made it so easy to maximize X or Y; this is certainly more streamlined.

@jasper: window placement is a little different after v768 in some apps... you can always use the --geometry option, say 936x702+0+0 (curiously, dillo won't respect 0+0, you have to do 0+1 to get as close to the corner as possible)
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#149 Post by scsijon »

@jasper, I have added a problem to joe's issue list for you.

EDIT 14june: I have just downloaded v777, I shall build and test tonight before uploading tomorrow as i'm working today elsewhere.
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#150 Post by Jasper »

@ scsijon - my thanks

@ session - I tried +0+1 and +1+1, but no joy - perhaps as
I'm using dillo v 2.2 from Tman.

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#151 Post by scsijon »

@jasper

Joe answered with:-
The window placement has changed somewhat, so I would expect that some windows might open in different locations. Are the applications being started with a "-geometry" option?
I must admit that I haden't seen this mentioned in the changelog, else I would have mentioned it.

Can you try to work it out with sessions help?

I have put the problem on joe's system on hold until needed.

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#152 Post by scsijon »

@jasper: It seems that the change has happend to fix the problems relating to windows dissapearing off screen.
Details from joe are:
The relevant commits that would have changed the behavior are 3ee8ddc and 4dd7c84. The problem these commits solve relates to the placement of windows that would go off the screen if placed where JWM would normally place a window.

Commit 3ee8ddc makes it so JWM correctly accounts for the window border size.

Commit 4dd7c84 makes it so JWM doesn't revert to the upper left-most position on the screen if the placement algorithm fails (instead, only the direction of the overflow is reset). In addition, 4dd7c84 constrains newly mapped windows to the area of the screen that JWM is willing to use even if a program specifies its own position.
So it looks like we are stuck with them as it's fixing other problems.

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@all: I have uploaded a test build of v777 for your testing.

If all is ok after some user testing, I intend using this for the next release version in about seven days so can I have responses in the thread with the puppy's you have used or tested it against listed please.

I shall also build a x86_64 as previously promised :oops: now I have found which box the Fatdog x86 partition is on! :?

regards

EDIT: 785 will NOT be uploaded tonight. Barryk had found a problem relating to geany which joe had fixed, however it's broken again.

Jasper

#153 Post by Jasper »

Hi scsijon,

Thank you for all the trouble you went to in following up my
observation and advising why Joe made the change for our
greater general good.

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#154 Post by scsijon »

Although joe is up to version 790 and I have built a few since v777, problems have been found that don't make me confident enough to be willing to release new test versions.

We shall have to be a little patient.

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#155 Post by scsijon »

Well, we have a new test version V805.

It contains a few more changes and fixups.

have fun

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#156 Post by toowoombalinux »

JWM 805 works perfectly in Puppy Lucid - no errors to reports...

Not sure if its the newer jwmconfig file or JWM805 - but my modifications to the tray were over-written - went to backup to restore.

Cheers
Martin

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#157 Post by Jasper »

Hi scsijon,

My Wine/Windows clock has acquired a green border using v 805 Test.

This is new since V 777 Test.

My regards

PS Just to confirm - I have the same problem that session describes in his post below.
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#158 Post by session »

Taskbar functionality is broken in v805, that is to say, the last minimized window will "stick" in the taskbar. This in turn disables keybindings.
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#159 Post by scsijon »

@session and @jasper

Issue #62 has been allocated to your problems with jwm v805

I was going to build 806 but will now await fixes

EDIT: Both of these are suposedly fixed with version 810 which I shall upload tonight afer a test or two.

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#160 Post by scsijon »

jwm version 815 is up for testing, if stable this will be rebuilt to become the next release.

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