QuickTile is broken for terminator on XFCE

[karamfil]

Firt let me say this is an awesome app!!! Keep up with the good work!

Hi, I have a problem with terminator (https://launchpad.net/terminator, 0.96-r1 and 0.97-r1) and quicktile (0.2.2 and 0.1.5) on xfce 4.10.

I have quicktile started as daemon and when I focus terminator and try to tile it - the windows jumps and starts sliding (like an animation) until only the title bar is visible.

Here is screenshot before tiling

Here is a screenshot trying to tile terminator to top-left

Debug info (seems perfectly fine):

Xlib.protocol.request.QueryExtension
DEBUG: window: <wnck.Window object at 0xfac280 (WnckWindow at 0x1039ab0)>
DEBUG: Monitor: 1, gtk.gdk.Rectangle(1920, 0, 1920, 1080)
DEBUG: dims [[0, 0, 960, 513], [0, 0, 640, 513], [0, 0, 1280, 513]]
DEBUG: result (1920, 27, 960, 513)
DEBUG: Monitor: 1, gtk.gdk.Rectangle(1920, 0, 1920, 1080)
DEBUG: repositioning to (1920, 27, 960, 513)

If there is any more info I can provide please point me in the right direction. I will try to help as much as possible.

Thanks in advance!

[ssokolow]

I'm a bit overworked right now but I'll try to make time to look into it on the weekend.

I generally try to reproduce people's problems by reproducing their desktops in VirtualBox so "more info I can provide" would consist of what distro you're running and any relevant details on how you set it up. (eg. 3rd-party package sources, desktop configuration settings like "focus follows mouse", etc.)

[karamfil]

Hmm let me try to make vbox vm for you :)

[ssokolow]

Thanks. That'll make things a lot simpler on my end.

[mrdanbrooks]

+1

[meoso]

I've had this same problem for probably a year, i thought it was just my machine until i recently installed Debian Jessie+Xfce on another machine and it also happens. It's ONLY for TERMINATOR on Xfce. Thank you!

[ssokolow]

Originally, I was waiting for @karamfil to make the vbox VM he said he would. Now, I'm still squashing regressions on my PC after upgrading Lubuntu to 14.04 but I'll try to put this on the TODO list for some time in the near future.

[ssokolow]

Alright. I'm going to try to reproduce the problem tonight. I'm running LXDE and Terminator has no problem under LXDE so I've started torrenting a Xubuntu ISO to set up in VirtualBox.

[ssokolow]

Ok, I've reproduced the problem and it's as you said. Sorry for the wait. (I've also managed to get it to animate itself to a vertical sliver along the left edge.)

As far as I can tell, it's a Terminator bug for three reasons:

1. In my tests, sometimes the bug triggers, sometimes the window tiles properly. In both cases, QuickTile is receiving identical metadata and sending identical instructions. That indicates it's not QuickTile's fault.
2. Once the bug has been triggered and the animation is in progress, Xfwm's more limited built-in tiling support also suffers from it. That means that, if it is an Xfwm bug, asking Xfwm itself to do tiling doesn't snap the window out of it.
3. The animation ignores the Xfwm "Hide content of windows: When resizing" option, which means that Xfwm doesn't consider the animation a resize.

My best guess is that the Terminator bug gets it stuck in a loop something like this:

1. Terminator receives notice that it's been resized
2. For some reason, Terminator decides it wants to be one pixel smaller than the size Xfwm reported
3. Terminator asks to be resized to its desired size.
4. Go back to step 1 (If Terminator's height is already at minimum, then asking for a smaller size does nothing and the loop stops.)

This could technically be considered a bug in either Xfwm or Terminator, since both seem to be required for the problem to manifest, but Terminator is the most at fault since I can't trigger it with anything else.

Either way, this isn't something I can fix and you'll want to follow the instructions for reporting bugs in Terminator.

[meoso]

thank you for locating root cause.
i've opened bug # 1361252 with terminator:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1361252

[meoso]

Stephen Boddy has presented a resolution @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1361252/comments/1

In short, Terminator>Preferences>Global>Window geometry hints>OFF

[karamfil]

Hi guys! Sorry I did not provide a VM T_T, been extremely busy this year.
Thanks a lot for taking a look at the issue again.

YOU ARE TOTALLY AWESOME!

[ssokolow]

No problem. I know how that feels. In fact, issues #44 and #45 went from tons of progress to two months of nothing because the holidays slammed me hard. I'm hoping to get them fixed in January.