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Offline richarduk

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Watch window obscured by Gnome menu.
« on: March 12, 2010, 10:08:57 am »
Ubuntu 9.10 32bit
C::B SVN version 6187

For a fresh install the watch window and the other debug windows default to their location to be at the extreme top left of the screen. If the Gnome menu bar is not on auto hide (the default setting) then you are unable to grab the watch windows menu bar and move it. You have to put you Gnome menu bar into auto hide mode, move it out of the way then turn off the auto hide mode.
You can replicate this buy having the menu bar in auto hide mode, move the window to the top left, then turn of auto hide mode. In this case the result is the same, you can no longer moved the window.

I found this very awkward when I first tried C::B and it made me think about going else where.  But then I realized to could work around it. The easiest fix is to change the default position of these windows to be docked in the lower portion of c::b main window?????

I've checked the bug list and can't find the bug listed. I'm happy to look into this as I have the source code building on my system.
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Re: Watch window obscured by Gnome menu.
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2010, 10:20:25 am »
Screen shot?
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Re: Watch window obscured by Gnome menu.
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2010, 02:54:16 pm »
I've noticed other applications like gimp do this.

Here, as requested. :)

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Re: Watch window obscured by Gnome menu.
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2010, 04:05:07 pm »
Can you report this to the ubuntu/gnome guys (stating that more than one app does that) ?

If they say that it is not their bug, please come back here and report :)

p.s. I think you could setup a mouse + key combination to move the window no matter the title bar is not visible (I'm not a gnome user, so I can't give you exact steps to set this :( )
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Re: Watch window obscured by Gnome menu.
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2010, 04:30:42 pm »
Ok will do although not 100% sure it's a gnome bug. I suppose if the windows are opened requesting default values from gnome then it should not place them under the start bar.
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Re: Watch window obscured by Gnome menu.
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2010, 04:46:26 pm »
Yes it is a registered bug 608765 , I've added a comment to it.

Can I look at the code and make it so that for the first time the window is opened these tool windows test to see if their title bar is obscured by the gnome menu bar and if so move them down? Only needs to happen for the very first time, would save some bad reviews from noobs, like my self. ;)

Rather annoyingly left alt + left mouse does not allow you to move these tools windows so your forced into having to hide the menu bar so that you can move them out of the way.


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