Re: [rox-users] confine to monitor rox panel context menu issue

[Tony H. <h...@re...>]

In <200...@co...>, Kacper Wysocki wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In my xinerama setup, using the "Confine panel to Xinerama desktop:",  
> and having the panel on the bottom of the screen I see the following  
> annoyance when trying to access a panel icon's context menu:
> 
> http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kwysoc/linux/panel-problem.png (7K)
> http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kwysoc/linux/panel-problem-rox-exit.png (24K)
i>
> This doesn't happen if the panel is on top or when the xinerama option  
> is disabled. Looks like the context menus are restricted to a certain  
> size by the confine hack. Any suggestions as to how I would go about  
> fixing the problem?

I don't get that problem. I think I'll have to send you patches to
produce diagnostic output to get to the bottom of this. Are your
monitors stacked vertically rather than horizontally? Have you tried a
different window manager?

One problem I have just noticed is that OroboROX often crashes if I open
a panel menu and skim the pointer over it. I think it might be new in
0.8.8 because it's doing it often enough that I probably would have
noticed it in the past. Unfortunately the backtraces are nonsense -
stack corruption? - it's absolutely consistent nonsense though, even
with different compiler options:

#4  0x0804cefc in clientLowerForce (c=0x0, force=1) at client.c:1184
#5  0x0804d3e9 in clientToggleBelow (c=0x80cb550) at client.c:1325

In my copy (which by now I've hacked a bit to try to find this bug) line
1325 calls clientSetLayerForce, not clientLowerForce; there's nothing to
change c to zero if it's executing the code that's actually there; if it
was zero, it would show up in the DEBUG printf statements; line 1184 is
in the middle of clientLowerForce, after it's dereferenced c several
times, and contains "while(--i >= 0)".

> And while we're on the topic, being able to have multiple different  
> panels confined to multiple monitors would be a great usability  
> feature, wouldn't it?

Yes, but it needs a lot of changes. I suspect most of the people
involved in the programming enough to do that are happy with just one
panel or only have one monitor.

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