Workarounds - Please test

[Griswold]

What I need:
I need people to test my plug-ins. This specific plug-in will fix Wine and legacy applications when they go fullscreen. I need people that had the old OpenOffice.org bug with the old Beryl to also test this plug-in to make sure I don't reintroduce said bug. People with multi-head displays are also encouraged to test.

Please post any and all results here. I will do my best to fix any potential errors and bugs in my code.

Thank you.

Here is the gitweb repo:
[url:7aa70]http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=users/griswold/workarounds;a=summary[/url:7aa70]

Use the following to fetch, compile, and install:
git clone [url:7aa70]git://anongit.opencompositing.org/users/griswold/workarounds[/url:7aa70] ~/compiz-workarounds
cd ~/compiz-workarounds
make && make install

To update your repo, recompile, and reinstall:
cd ~/compiz-workarounds
git fetch
git rebase origin
make && make install

[delfick]

i'll test it after my exams (next wednesday :D)

out of curiosity, what problems with wine ??

[sonicbhoc]

Cool, we're already getting some 3rd party plugins! I'll be glad to test it, but not right now. My school's internet connection is 4kb/s, and I'm in the middle of taking my finals (it'll be done by friday).

[Griswold]

out of curiosity, what problems with wine ??

The gnome-panel's appear on top of fullscreen games.

[Griswold]

Thanks to both of you for offering to test it, even though neither of you can do it quite yet.

[delfick]

out of curiosity, what problems with wine ??

The gnome-panel's appear on top of fullscreen games.

ok then

i have another bug, when i start macromedia flash, it appears in a window bigger than the screen (only slightly, but still annoying :P).....

is that (or can that be) fixed by this by any chance ?? :D

[DarkElven]

yet still it is not working with OpenOffice.org Impress slide show, i see my panels if i hit F5 for fullscreen slide show...

[Griswold]

yet still it is not working with OpenOffice.org Impress slide show, i see my panels if i hit F5 for fullscreen slide show...

Fixed. Please update current Git and try again. Instructions for doing so are in my first post. Cheers! ;)

[Griswold]

out of curiosity, what problems with wine ??

The gnome-panel's appear on top of fullscreen games.

ok then

i have another bug, when i start macromedia flash, it appears in a window bigger than the screen (only slightly, but still annoying :P).....

is that (or can that be) fixed by this by any chance ?? :D

Most likely it can be fixed. :) It would help me quite a lot if I could reproduce the problem, so more detailed information on the problem or how I can also have the same problem would be appreciated.

[delfick]

ok then, when i get back into linux i will........:D

[DarkElven]

yet still it is not working with OpenOffice.org Impress slide show, i see my panels if i hit F5 for fullscreen slide show...

Fixed. Please update current Git and try again. Instructions for doing so are in my first post. Cheers! ;)

now it works ok on fullscreen, but (does there allways need to be some but?) if i run Impress with this plugin, OOo takes the whole pulpit, and it should not take the whole pulpit but only if i run slide show with F5 button and one more thing i have noticed, that if i run mplayer with this plugin than i'm not able to run mplayer in fullscreen

[sKanK]

Hello.

I've found a problem and it could come from this plugin. When I start my computer and pull up or down the sound the OSD sound level appears with the normal open/close animation effect. If I activate and deactivate workarounds plugin, and then try again with the OSD, it appears as it should, with the animation for popup/notification etc.. if I restart Compiz Fusion the problem does not come again.

Hope to be at the good place for this issue, and to be quite understandable (I'm french).

[edit]This issue has disappeared with last updates, don't know when as I reboot once a week.

[karasu]

Hi, just my two cents:

If I have "QT Window Fix" activated (as it is by default) mplayer gui (gmplayer) shows up without window decorations.

Maybe this flag should not be set on by default ? (at least it was in my installation)

Also if I activate the "fix fullscreen legacy applications" I can't come back from fullscreen in mplayer.

Of course all these are not a big deal, just to let you know...

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: Seems that aMsn has the same "window decoration" issues... http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1238

[maniac]

Hi, just my two cents:

If I have "QT Window Fix" activated (as it is by default) mplayer gui (gmplayer) shows up without window decorations.

Maybe this flag should not be set on by default ? (at least it was in my installation)

EDIT: Seems that aMsn has the same "window decoration" issues... http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1238
This problem is fixed since August 1st - Trevinho just needs to update hix packages ;)

[fldc]

i can''t see the legacy fullscreen issue with mplayer being fixed, restoring a window from fullscreen makes the desktop (KDE) black and flickering. I'm using a git copy here. I don't know what this is supposed to fix anyway, haha, no applications that didn't fullscreen properly before on compis does it with this fix enabled :D

[maniac]

i can''t see the legacy fullscreen issue with mplayer being fixed, restoring a window from fullscreen makes the desktop (KDE) black and flickering. I'm using a git copy here. I don't know what this is supposed to fix anyway, haha, no applications that didn't fullscreen properly before on compis does it with this fix enabled :D
Err, I meant the missing decoration problem with "Qt menu fix" checked is fixed - Quote fixed ;)