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Re: Compiz fix [message #20855 is a reply to message #20820]

Tue, 14 April 2009 19:57

mirek
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kodos wrote on Fri, 10 April 2009 11:32

Hi,

I don't know how the standard settings are in other Linux distributions but at least in Ubuntu the standard settings for compiz is to use the Animation plugin, an they have different animations for top level windows and "other" windows (like popupmenus and other things). So for example if you open the file menu in TheIDE it looks weird. Compiz decides what animation it should use according to its type.

I have hacked a quick fix which works for me, but it isn't really nice, because I just set every window which is created with redirect==true to be a popup menu. I'm afraid I don't know how I could detect in the Create method which sort of window actually is created and set type correctly.

EDIT: The patch is for the CtrlCore/X11Wnd.cpp file Wink

EDIT2: And a link which shows every type a WM should understand: http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.4/ar01s05.html
A correct fix would probably use those types.

Thanks, applied.

I guess that for really good fix, we will have to add "type hint" to Ctrl (MENU, TOOLTIP, DROPLIST etc...) and call it appropriately... (with some reasonable default).

Mirek

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