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From: Zhu Sha Zang <zhushazang@×××××××××.br>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:22:15
Message-Id: 55757AD5.1080509@yahoo.com.br
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem by Philip Webb
1 On 06/07/2015 03:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 150607 Mick wrote:
3 >> On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 18:57:58 Philip Webb wrote:
4 >>> Yesterday, I updated to the now stable Fluxbox 1.3.7-r1 ;
5 >>> there have been no changes in my config files.
6 >> Same here.
7 >>> Normally, I have the toolbar (the panel at the bottom of the screen)
8 >>> hidden & make it visible by dropping the mouse down there ;
9 >>> I also have Fbpager running to its left, similarly hidden & revealed.
10 >> My toolbar is set to be visible and I have no Fbpager.
11 > So your experience is not directly relevant.
12 >
13 >>> Since the update, the pager & toolbar remain hidden,
14 >>> even when I move the mouse down there, but when the mouse is over the
15 >>> pager, the toolbar appears in a flickering form. It becomes a solid
16 >>> image when I move the mouse to the right & remains till I move the mouse
17 >>> away. However, if the pager is not running, the toolbar remains hidden
18 >>> always.
19 >> I am guessing that the problem is with Fbpager.
20 >> Do you still have the problem if you remove Fbpager?
21 > Please read what I wrote (smile) !
22 > "However, if the pager is not running, the toolbar remains hidden always" :
23 > that is not the expected behaviour, ie what I get with 1.3.6-r1 ,
24 > when moving the mouse over the toolbar area makes it appear.
25 >
26 >> Something I noticed is that the toolbar will not show if hidden,
27 >> until I move the cursor 1-2 inches or more from its right edge.
28 >> I have a clock on the right hand side and need to come left well beyond it
29 >> and into the application tabs area for the toolbar to show up.
30 > That shouldn't be happening : it doesn't happen for me with 1.3.6-r1 .
31 >
32 >> In any other position the cursor brings the toolbar up as expected.
33 >> Now, if your Fbpager is where my clock happens to be
34 >> -- the right hand edge of the toolbar --
35 >> then we have come across the same bug.
36 > It's to the left (please read what I wrote above)
37 > & you are experiencing part of what's gone wrong with 1.3.7 ,
38 > but not all of it :
39 >
40 >> However, there is no flickering here :
41 >> the toolbar either shows up or does not. So the flickering
42 >> could be related to the canvas of the Fbpager being refreshed.
43 > It's caused somehow by the presence of the pager.
44 >
45 >>> I emerged 1.3.7 , which showed the same bug.
46 >>> However, having restored 1.3.6-r1 , which I used before yesterday,
47 >>> the bug has disappeared & the pager + the toolbar work as they should.
48 >>> The configuration has remained the same thro'out these tests.
49 >>> Before I file a bug, has anyone else seen this ? Any advice ?
50 >>> Are there any other Fluxbox users on the list ?
51 >> PS I only use Fluxbox as a fall back when Enlightenment does not work.
52 >> Perhaps you should give e19 a spin, now that it is in the main tree.
53 >> Configure your favourite apps to show up when you right click on the desktop
54 >> and you should be pretty much at home with it.
55 > I've been a contented user of Fluxbox for some years,
56 > so I hope I don't have to drop it.
57 >
58 > It looks like a bug report is needed. The Fluxbox WWW site warns
59 > that 1.3.7 was released after 2 yr break & may need lots of testing.
60 >
61 Have you tried to use something like:
62
63 exec fluxbox -log "~/.fluxbox/log" to check what happening?
64
65 ??
66
67 Regards

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>