Re: 2.5.0_rc2 has a window placement problem
Re: 2.5.0_rc2 has a window placement problem
- Subject: Re: 2.5.0_rc2 has a window placement problem
- From: dp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:09:32 -0700
Here's a screen shot of that problem and three less obvious problems, and
there's a fourth problem that is even worse.
http://metalworkingathome.com/images/badXterms.png
The problems are:
1) The top left xterm title bar is unreachable.
2) This doesn't show up in the screen shot, but the mouse pointer becomes a text
I-bar when ever it is over any of the xterms. That means over the title bar, the
resize corner, or the text window. I cannot access the controls of any xterm
(red, yellow, green buttons), and only the xterm with text in it is active. I
cannot activate any other xterm.
3) The text in the active window is garbled - see the speckle at the bottom of
the directory listing. The listing is actually much longer. There is no prompt,
and the characters do not echo to the xterm.
4) The standard X11 package that was intalled with Snow Leopard is broken.
Launching the X11.app icon in the utilities directory produces a Dock object
that offers only "Not responding... Force Quit". I tried reinstalling it but it
remains broken.
This screen is 2.5.0_rc2 updated over rc1. I have to agree this is not ready to
go gold.
dp
On 3/27/10 2:47 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
Please file a bug report.
To be honest, this seems a bit edge-case. I'll look at it before releasing 2.5.0, but it's not going to hold up a release. Besides, I expect 2.5.1 to be a much shorter/tighter release cycle focusing on moving to the 1.8 server, addressing corner issues like this, and hopefully doing more clipboard and libGL work.
--Jeremy
On Mar 27, 2010, at 07:37, Tom Lane wrote:
This morning, rc2 decided that the first window ought to open at the
very top of the screen, such that its window title bar is invisible
and inaccessible behind the menu bar. This is a pretty serious
usability regression from prior versions :-(
I have not tried to do a controlled reproduction, but I think it
goes like this:
* attach external monitor that's positioned above laptop screen
* open some X11 windows on the external, then close them
* sleep laptop and detach external monitor
* hit command-N to try to open a new xterm
regards, tom lane
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