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#634 Bottom separator does not correctly remember its position
geany 0.20 (built on Jan 16 2011 with GTK 2.22.0, GLib 2.26.0, GIO)
on Ubuntu 10.10
Steps to reproduce:
- Move the separator between the main window and the message window to the very bottom (making the message window invisible).
- Quit geany.
- Open geany.
- The separator has moved up by approximately the height of one log line.
I hope this is indeed a bug and not intended as it is a little annoying to move the spearator down each time the application starts.
For me it stays all the way down. One thought is that it's related to your GTK+ theme/engine maybe?
I'm not sure if you're aware though, under the View menu you can disable/hide the Message Window, or alternately, assign a keybinding to toggle it between hidden and visible from the Preferences dialog. In both cases it should remember the visibility of the Message Window when you close and reopen the program.
Hmm, that's strange. It seems to work even with the message window visible. Thanks anyways!
I confirm this bug with Geany 0.20 on Ubuntu 11.04.
Say I want to have 30 visible lines in my text area, so I set message window height accordingly, but each time I close Geany and open it again, one more line is used by the message window, so one line is missing for text area. Example:
- Set text area height to 30 lines.
- Close Geany and open it again.
- Text area height is 29 lines.
- Close Geany and open it again.
- Texat area height is 28 lines.
- Close Geany and open it again.
- Texat area height is 27 lines.
- Close Geany and open it again.
- Texat area height is 26 lines.
- Etc.
So I must repeatedly adjust height.
I made some investigations and I found that each time I close Geany, the value of "msgwindow_position" in the file "/home/USER/.config/geany/geany.conf" is decreasing. Example:
- Initial value is msgwindow_position=548
- Close Geany.
- Value is now msgwindow_position=531
- Open Geany and close it.
- Value is now msgwindow_position=515
- Open Geany and close it.
- Value is now msgwindow_position=499
- Open Geany and close it.
- Value is now msgwindow_position=484
- Open Geany and close it.
- Value is now msgwindow_position=469
- Etc.
I still can't reproduce this, using the current SVN version, can you try with the development code (maybe it was fixed already)? Also, just to be sure, have you tried with the stock GTK+ theme, maybe try one or two different ones?
There is a little bit of "magic" happening between lines 905 and 917 in keyfile.c, perhaps someone more familiar with the code can check this.
I've tested with version 0.21 (svn >= 5759) and I still have the bug.
By "stock GTK+ theme", do you mean the theme used for my system, set in "System > Preferences > Appearance"? If so, I use Clearlooks. I've tested with a few others, and the bug is still there.
I can't reproduce the bug either, neither on my Debian Sid machine or on a Ubuntu 11.04 live CD. I also tried many themes (including Clearlooks) on both machines.
Have you anything special configured on your machine? Could you try using e.g. a live CD (in the case we just don't understand exactly how to reproduce)?
> There is a little bit of "magic" happening between lines 905 and 917 in
> keyfile.c, perhaps someone more familiar with the code can check this.
Maybe, but not that lines 914-917 are unlikely to be causing the problem since the weird constants are only used as the default value if the config key is not set (e.g. on first startup).
> Could you try using e.g. a live CD (in the case we just don't understand
> exactly how to reproduce)?
I tested Geany on a ISO image (Ubuntu 11.04) using Virtualbox. I didn't change any preferences, neither on the system nor on Geany, so all is default stuff. The bug still occurs.
> Have you anything special configured on your machine?
I don't think so. I have a Asus EeePC T101MT with Ubuntu 11.04 ("Ubuntu Classic" session, not Unity).
Wow. I actually did the exact same thing (launch Ubuntu 11.04 live CD inside VirtualBox from my Debian machine), and didn't see this occur, neither using Unity nor proper GNOME.
Hum… what's your screen resolution, DPI, etc? I doubt it's related because changing DPIs on my Debian box doesn't change anything, but who knows…
> Hum… what's your screen resolution, DPI, etc?
I'll attach screenshots of my configuration.
I don't know how to attach a file to this report, so I put the file here:
http://www.jpfleury.net/depot-fichiers/png/settings-sourceforge-bug-3170437.png
I noted that each time I open and close Geany, "msgwindow_position" is decreased, but to a progressively smaller difference with the last value:
607
589: -18px
571: -18px
554: -17px
537: -17px
521: -16px
505: -16px
490: -15px
475: -15px
461: -14px
447: -14px
433: -14px
420: -13px
407: -13px
395: -12px
383: -12px
371: -12px
360: -11px
349: -11px
338: -11px
328: -10px
318: -10px
308: -10px
299: -9px
290: -9px
281: -9px
272: -9px
264: -8px
256: -8px
248: -8px
240: -8px
233: -7px
226: -7px
219: -7px
212: -7px
206: -6px
200: -6px
194: -6px
188: -6px
182: -6px
176: -6px
171: -5px
166: -5px
161: -5px
156: -5px
151: -5px
146: -5px
142: -4px
138: -4px
134: -4px
130: -4px
126: -4px
122: -4px
118: -4px
114: -4px
111: -3px
108: -3px
105: -3px
102: -3px
99: -3px
96: -3px
93: -3px
90: -3px
87: -3px
84: -3px
81: -3px
79: -2px
77: -2px
75: -2px
73: -2px
71: -2px
69: -2px
67: -2px
65: -2px
63: -2px
61: -2px
59: -2px
57: -2px
55: -2px
53: -2px
51: -2px
49: -2px
48: -1px
47: -1px
46: -1px
45: -1px
44: -1px
43: -1px
42: -1px
41: -1px
40: -1px
39: -1px
38: -1px
37: -1px
36: -1px
35: -1px
34: -1px
33: -1px
32: -1px
31: -1px
30: -1px
29: -1px
28: -1px
27: -1px
26: -1px
25: -1px
24: -1px
23: -1px
22: -1px
21: -1px
20: -1px
19: -1px
18: -1px
17: -1px
16: -1px
16: -0px
I made some tests and I think that the problem is with "gtk_paned_set_position" (file "src/keyfile.c", line 1123):
gtk_paned_set_position(GTK_PANED(ui_lookup_widget(main_widgets.window, "vpaned1")), vpan_position);
"vpan_position" contains the value get from the config file, but "gtk_paned_set_position" seems to decrease (about 3%) this value. Then, the decreased value is correctly saved in the config file (lines 527-528):
g_key_file_set_integer(config, PACKAGE, "msgwindow_position",
gtk_paned_get_position(GTK_PANED(ui_lookup_widget(main_widgets.window, "vpaned1"))));
The next time Geany opens, the value "589" is correctly get in the config file in lines 915-917:
vpan_position = utils_get_setting_integer(config, PACKAGE, "msgwindow_position", (geo) ?
(GEANY_MSGWIN_HEIGHT + geo[3] - 440) :
(GEANY_MSGWIN_HEIGHT + GEANY_WINDOW_DEFAULT_HEIGHT - 440));
but "gtk_paned_set_position" decreases again this value, this time to 571. When we close Geany, 571 is saved in the config file. When we open again Geany, 571 is get and "gtk_paned_set_position" decreases it to 554, and so on.
I think the bug occurs this way because even if I hardcode the value for vpan position in line 1123:
gtk_paned_set_position(GTK_PANED(ui_lookup_widget(main_widgets.window, "vpaned1")), 607);
the message window is not positioned to 607px when Geany opens, but to 589px (verified with a screenshot), and 589 is later saved in the config file.
Does this bug happen when you disconnect the 17" monitor and just use the netbook screen?
> Does this bug happen when you disconnect the 17" monitor and just use the
> netbook screen?
Yes, the bug still occurs.
Test program
This is really weird and looks like a GTK+ bug with a particular detail of your configuration…
Could you try the attached program and check if it has the same behavior? Just run it, move the separator, quit, restart, etc. The configuration is saved in panedsaving.conf, maybe you can simply check whether the value decreases here too.
If yes, it's definitely a GTK+ problem, so it should be forwarded to them. If no… oh shit, it's a Geany problem and we then gotta fix it :/
> Could you try the attached program and check if it has the same behavior?
There's no bug with the attached program.
Good news. I updated to Ubuntu 11.10, and I no longer have this bug. :-)
Cool! Though I still don't understand what caused it... maybe a theme or something. Anyway, good you don't suffer of the bug anymore :)
This bug still occurs in version 0.21. It occurs on Lubuntu 11.10 as well and I can confirm that each time I open and close geany the msgwindow_position value decreases.
Running your attached program I get the following strange behaviour: When I move the separator all the way down position=570 is saved in the text file, but on the next start the separator is moved to the vertical middle of the screen.
All positions above the middle are correctly saved and restored, all positions below the middle are correctly stored, but incorrectly reset (to the vertical middle).
The bug is still present with geany 0.21 on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
I attach here the screenshot of my configuration I'm talking about in a previous comment.