Panel and workspace issue on Cinnamon

[AmirHosseinNiknezhad]

The app causes the panel and workspaces to malfunction. Sometimes everything works fine for a while, but inevitably, two problems will occur:

1. The menu that opens after right-clicking the panel stops opening.
2. I cannot drag-and-drop windows from a workspace to another in the workspace selection screen.

Everything goes back to normal as soon as I stop the app.

Environment

• Gromit-MPX version: I have tried both the one in the Ubuntu repo version 1.3-1 and the Flatpak version 1.4.2
• OS and version: Linux Mint 20.3 (based on Ubuntu Focal)
• Desktop Environment and version: Cinnamon 5.2.7
• X11 or Wayland session: X11

Please forgive me if the information is insufficient. I would be happy to answer any questions on the matter. The app is awesome otherwise. Thanks in advance.

[bk138]

1. The menu that opens after right-clicking the panel stops opening.

Can you please check if other systray icons are affected as well?

2. I cannot drag-and-drop windows from a workspace to another in the workspace selection screen.

Can you drag and drop in the file manager? What happens after you hit Ctrl-F9 to hide Gromit-MPX's window?

[AmirHosseinNiknezhad]

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

Can you please check if other systray icons are affected as well?

They all work fine, including Gromit-MPX's. Things like the panel are the problem.

Can you drag and drop in the file manager?

Yes

What happens after you hit Ctrl-F9 to hide Gromit-MPX's window?

I'm not sure if I understand. Ctrl-F9 does what F9 does for me. Undoes the last stroke. Besides, I'm not sure what or where Gromit-MPX's window is! The issue persists after hitting Ctrl-F9.

All these difficulties usually arise either some minutes or long after opening the app. Everything works as expected beforehand. I would also like to add that using the Flatpak version makes the issue much more frequent.

[bk138]

I'm not sure if I understand. Ctrl-F9 does what F9 does for me. Undoes the last stroke. Besides, I'm not sure what or where Gromit-MPX's window is! The issue persists after hitting Ctrl-F9.

Ctrl-F9 backgrounds the transparent window Gromit-MPX is drawing to and which might cause those issues with Cinnamon's panel (altough it shouldn't). You can check whether this window is shown by drawing something with Gromit-MPX, then hitting Ctrl-F9 (it should go away because the window is hidden now),; Ctrl-F9 again will reshow your drawing (and thus the window).

On more thing I remember is that I had issues with GNOME3 and a specific tray icon extension, switching workspaces helped in that case.

[nalmada]

Can reproduce on Linux Mint 21.1

Right click on panel does not work properly anymore once gromit-mpx is running

What happens is that if I right click on panel, it only triggers the appropriate action (show right click options menu) when I click on the very bottom part of the panel

With gromit in painting mode, if I try to draw as low as I can on the screen, It leaves a few millimeters between bottom of the screen and where I can draw. And it seems that I can right click on the panel only when clicking on these few millimeters

As you can see on the screen, right lick will only works if I click under the red line (drawn with gromit)

So it seems that the overlay created by gromit allowing it to draw, is preventing the right click on panel action ?