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New windows invisible

Open petterssonjonas opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

All new windows i create, except for the web browser, are invisible and can only be seen if moved to scratch then back. Windows on the second monitor also dissapear when i spawn a new window on first monitor. Running Arch, latest gnome, the AUR package of paperwm.

petterssonjonas avatar May 17 '20 13:05 petterssonjonas

Did it start happening after a system update? Arch is often a few commits ahead of the tagged released so that could be it (though I took a look at the commit they ship and didn't see anything obvious pop out).

What's your monitor setup? (how many, and if you have workspaces-only-on-primary turned on or not?)

I'm guessing windows are shown while navigating/animating (eg. super-right/left), and the tiling doesn't respond to resizing invisible windows?

Not really sure what can be causing the second monitor to not show windows though.

hedning avatar May 18 '20 21:05 hedning

workspaces-only-on-primary is on. they are show while moving with super left right. When i take a window from scratch back to the tiling, scratched windows on second monitor minimize. GNOME Shell 3.36.2.

I've also noticed that paperwm (at least it appers to be) causes some severe lag in wine games. And the top gnome menu overlays the full screen game.

petterssonjonas avatar May 18 '20 22:05 petterssonjonas

Right, workspaces-only-on-primary doesn't really work well in paperwm (eg. windows to pushed into a secondary monitor will get detached), I'd reccomend turning it off (that will give you a workspace per monitor). It's been a while since I tried testing with it on, but it wouldn't surprise if a bug interacting with it have snuck in.

I've also noticed that paperwm (at least it appers to be) causes some severe lag in wine games

I'd thought those things had mostly been ironed out by ba059a07d62410561aca897975c6d7704678eafa, but yeah, the way we handle animations has the potential of causing some overhead.

And the top gnome menu overlays the full screen game.

I'd guess this is a wine specific bug, I'll see if I get time to debug it.

hedning avatar May 18 '20 22:05 hedning

If setting workspaces-only-on-primary to false didn't work you might be seeing a X11 specific bug (assuming you're on X11). Seen some weirdness the last week with gnome-shell 3.34.

hedning avatar Jun 12 '20 22:06 hedning

Is this still happening for anyone? I haven't seen this happen. Am assuming due to an old bug or change in either your distro, gnome, or an older PaperWM implementation.

jtaala avatar Mar 11 '23 07:03 jtaala

I've not used paperwm for years, so no idea.

petterssonjonas avatar Mar 11 '23 08:03 petterssonjonas

I've not used paperwm for years, so no idea.

All good @fuzebox1, thanks for replying. Cheers :+1:

jtaala avatar Mar 11 '23 10:03 jtaala

Closing this issue as no longer valid, given no confirmed cases after a month.

jtaala avatar Apr 10 '23 12:04 jtaala