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luquino, Tuesday 20 July 2010 à 21:22
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Subscription date : 08 June 2009
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HI.
I've Ubuntu Lucid 10.04, with Gnome, Cairo-dock is 2.1.3-10-lucid with OpneGL, window manager is Compiz.
Everything is working well, but OpenOffice Impress. My dock is configured to stay always on top, no auto hide, and all opening windows respect the dock area, but when I start Impress the window goes down until the bottom of the screen, behind the dock. I hard tried to find a solution in OOffice and in Cairo-dock settings, but I had no success.
This behavior is very nasty, what I can do? |
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matttbe, Wednesday 21 July 2010 à 11:17
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Hello,
Oh, this is strange... Maybe a bug in OoImpress or in Compiz.
But maybe you can do a right click on the dock / Cairo-Dock / Quick Hide. |
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fabounet, Wednesday 21 July 2010 à 13:24
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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maybe the window is fullscreen ? |
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luquino, Wednesday 21 July 2010 à 19:25
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matttbe : Hello,
Oh, this is strange... Maybe a bug in OoImpress or in Compiz.
But maybe you can do a right click on the dock / Cairo-Dock / Quick Hide.
yes I can right click and quick hide, but:
1) no way to get back the dock, I tried to move the mouse in the dock area, click and right click but nothing to do, the dock doesn't appears back. Probably I miss some info...
2) the dock disappear, but on the right siode of the dock I have the cairo-clock applett and this doesn't disappear, stay on top
fabounnet : maybe the window is fullscreen ?
it is not in full screen mode, because the window has his frame, if you refer to maximized window I can say that many other window (i.e.: Firefox) would open in maximized size but the dock always reserve his space and the window doesn't overlap dock area. |
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matttbe, Wednesday 21 July 2010 à 20:10
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Can you upload a screenshot (e.g. with dnd2share applet) and post the link here? Maybe it can help.
BTW it can be interesting to try the 2.2.0-0beta2 release... We have a Weekly ppa if you want to try it. |
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luquino, Wednesday 21 July 2010 à 20:56
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This is the screen shot, I used 2.2.0 weekly ppa version of Cairo dock, but as u can see the result is the same 
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matttbe, Wednesday 21 July 2010 à 21:18
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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It's a bit strange that it only happens with OoImpress  . Maybe it uses a special case for its window... Can you check if you still have the bug with metacity? (Alt+F2 => "metacity --replace" or "compiz --replace") |
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+1 for trying with another Window Manager (Metacity or Compiz)
what if you use another program at the same time and maximize its window ? |
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luquino, Thursday 22 July 2010 à 15:18
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mmmhhh... I think I found the trick.
first of all I have to specify that Impress opens 2 windows: the first one is the Slide Show Edit Window, the second one is the Show Window. The first one has no problems with the dock, is the second window that produce the problem.
matttbe :
... Can you check if you still have the bug with metacity? (Alt+F2 => "metacity --replace" or "compiz --replace")
No, I don't have any bug, doing that the system switch smootly between metacity and compiz, but I started Impress when compiz was switched off and I realized that the second window of impress is opened in full screen mode, without frame and overlap the dock and the gnome panel as well: that is a normal behavior.
So I think that the problem is the interaction between Impress and Compiz: Impress wants to open a full screen mode window, compiz shrink Impress in a normal window, cairo dock think that Impress is in full screen mode and permits to use his area, but at the same time cairo detect a window so force it in background.
A little tricky ... |
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cairo dock think that Impress is in full screen and permits to use his area, but at the same time cairo detect a window so force it in background.
actually the dock does not force it in the background nor resize it.
it merely reserve around 50 pixels on the screen to X on startup, and the WM has to submit to that. |
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luquino, Thursday 22 July 2010 à 15:39
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fabounet : +1 for trying with another Window Manager (Metacity or Compiz)
what if you use another program at the same time and maximize its window ?
All the maximized windows I open over the Impress window respect the dock area. |
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luquino, Thursday 22 July 2010 à 15:41
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fabounet : cairo dock think that Impress is in full screen and permits to use his area, but at the same time cairo detect a window so force it in background.
actually the dock does not force it in the background nor resize it.
it merely reserve around 50 pixels on the screen to X on startup, and the WM has to submit to that.
well, I tried to suppose. Actually I'm not a developper.  |
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no problem 
but then the bug is probably inside Compiz, you can maybe report it to them. |
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luquino, Friday 23 July 2010 à 18:52
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Yesterday I asked on OOffice forum, but they answer that Ubuntu OOffice package is buggy, now I need the time to make another install of OOffice from Sun packages.
That is strange: OOffice people always said the same...
Anyway as soon as I have news I'll let you know, thanks for your help. |
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matttbe, Friday 23 July 2010 à 20:25
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luquino, Saturday 31 July 2010 à 14:54
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Subscription date : 08 June 2009
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ok, nor the Original Sun-Oracle package fix the problem, but they still say that the problem is Compiz...
The never ending story of OOffice vs Compiz fight.
Anyway the weekly ppa of Cairo dock fixed the quick hide problem, now if I put the mouse pointer on the lower border the dock appears back.
Many thanks. |
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