Discussion of the Openbox window manager

Andrej N. Gritsenko | 4 Jun 2012 12:47

Openbox goes unresponsible, I need help.

    Hello!

    I'm trying to fix an issue. I do DnD action from one application to
another. As soon mouse is over some widget of target application I lose
all control over Openbox - it neither react on mouse nor keyboard. XOrg
still draws mouse cursor movement and is able to redraw windows when I
switch to other VTs and back but none of Openbox actions cannot be done
ATM. I have no clues where to dig so I want your help - what might cause
such involving of WM? I understand that DnD is Gtk+ action and is more
high-level operation than WM do but as soon it involves WM level I think
you could give me some clues.

    Thank you in advance!
    Andriy.
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Ikem Krueger | 5 Jun 2012 01:27

Re: Openbox goes unresponsible, I need help.

> 2012/6/4 Andrej N. Gritsenko <andrej@...>:

>  As soon mouse is over some widget of target application

> I lose all control over Openbox

> What might cause such involving of WM?

Sound like a focus issue.

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Andrej N. Gritsenko | 5 Jun 2012 01:48

Re: Openbox goes unresponsible, I need help.

    Hello!

Ikem Krueger has written on Monday,  4 June, at 23:27:
>> 2012/6/4 Andrej N. Gritsenko <andrej <at> rep.kiev.ua>:

>>  As soon mouse is over some widget of target application
>> I lose all control over Openbox

>> What might cause such involving of WM?

>Sound like a focus issue.

    I believe it isn't as no focus is changed at that moment, the target
application gets event about mouse pointer at widget area and it does
something (or otherwise doesn't) that caused such thing. No focus change
or anything like that happens and it doesn't happen with another source
of DnD action. I'm trying to find out where to dig it and it would be
nice if I know what really happens. If you are curious to test the case,
source application is Shotwell and target is PCManFM.

    With best wishes.
    Andriy.
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Brian Mattern | 5 Jun 2012 06:39

Re: Openbox goes unresponsible, I need help.

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>     I'm trying to fix an issue. I do DnD action from one application to
> another. As soon mouse is over some widget of target application I lose
> all control over Openbox - it neither react on mouse nor keyboard. XOrg
> still draws mouse cursor movement and is able to redraw windows when I
> switch to other VTs and back but none of Openbox actions cannot be done
> ATM. I have no clues where to dig so I want your help - what might cause
> such involving of WM? I understand that DnD is Gtk+ action and is more
> high-level operation than WM do but as soon it involves WM level I think
> you could give me some clues.

This sounds like a gtk issue to me, or possibly the apps in question. It
most likely has nothing to do with openbox.  During a DnD action, gtk is
probably grabs the mouse pointer (e.g. using XGrabPointer()), and not
letting it go.

I'm fairly certain that the DnD protocol does not involve the WM in any
way.

Brian
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Pedro Ribeiro | 6 Jun 2012 13:08

Upgraded to openbox 3.5 - strange behaviour with shortcut to open terminal?

Hi all,

I've recently upgraded my 3.4.11 installation to 3.5.

Everything seems to be working fine, apart from the well known bug
triggered by some gtk3 apps.

The only thing that happens now is when I use some of my shortcuts,
such as for example Windows + T to open a terminal, the terminal
window will appear underneath all windows.

Is this expected behaviour, or something wrong with me rc.xml? It is
exactly the same as used for 3.4.11.

Thanks in advance for your help.

PS: Is there a way to modify the Alt + Tab to get it back to the
horizontal mode as it had before?

Pedro
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Paul | 7 Jun 2012 00:48

Re: Upgraded to openbox 3.5 - strange behaviour with shortcut to open terminal?

On Wednesday, 06 June, 2012 at 12:08:03 BST, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>The only thing that happens now is when I use some of my shortcuts,
>such as for example Windows + T to open a terminal, the terminal
>window will appear underneath all windows.
>
>Is this expected behaviour, or something wrong with me rc.xml? It is
>exactly the same as used for 3.4.11.

It's not normal. Check the applications node in your rc.xml.

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Pedro Ribeiro | 7 Jun 2012 01:15

Re: Upgraded to openbox 3.5 - strange behaviour with shortcut to open terminal?

On 6 June 2012 23:48, Paul <openboxml023478@...> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 06 June, 2012 at 12:08:03 BST, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>>
>> The only thing that happens now is when I use some of my shortcuts,
>> such as for example Windows + T to open a terminal, the terminal
>> window will appear underneath all windows.
>>
>> Is this expected behaviour, or something wrong with me rc.xml? It is
>> exactly the same as used for 3.4.11.
>
>
> It's not normal. Check the applications node in your rc.xml.
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Hi,

The only thing related in the app node is below:
    <application name="xfce4-terminal" role="DesktopBackground">
      <decor>no</decor>
      <focus>no</focus>
      <position>
        <x>center</x>
        <y>center</y>

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karl anliot | 7 Jun 2012 03:06

Re: Upgraded to openbox 3.5 - strange behaviour with shortcut to open terminal?


> On Wednesday, 06 June, 2012 at 12:08:03 BST, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> >The only thing that happens now is when I use some of my shortcuts,
> >such as for example Windows + T to open a terminal, the terminal
> >window will appear underneath all windows.

On my pc, this problem occurs for gnome-terminal, but not lxterminal

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rephorm | 7 Jun 2012 06:21

Re: Upgraded to openbox 3.5 - strange behaviour with shortcut to open terminal?

Does gnome-terminal launch a new process, or tell the original process to open a new window. If it is the
latter, then openbox is probably preventing the original process from stealing focus / raising on top of
the currently focused window. (I see a similar thing with Chrome an tracked it down to this using ob's focus
debugging option)

Brian

On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:06 PM, karl anliot <kanliot@...> wrote:

> 
> 
>> On Wednesday, 06 June, 2012 at 12:08:03 BST, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>>> The only thing that happens now is when I use some of my shortcuts,
>>> such as for example Windows + T to open a terminal, the terminal
>>> window will appear underneath all windows.
> 
> On my pc, this problem occurs for gnome-terminal, but not lxterminal
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owlet bw | 12 Jun 2012 19:34

openbox freezes my computer completely

Hello, openbox community.

There are some cases when openbox freezes my computer completely such that only hard "restart" (button on system unit) can help. All that cases deal with need to open or close windows. Firstly I thought it was because of bugs in software I use, but then I installed another WM - pekwm, tried to reproduce all the cases there, and everything works fine. No problems in pekwm.

1. Firefox. Web page - http://www.popmech.ru/article/11112-muzhskie-i-zhenskie-seti/ looks like this

http://www.imageup.ru/img237/967866/2012-06-12-210515_765x812_scrot.png

The picture inside the article is a thumbnail of bigger picture that supposed to be opened in a separate window. If I click that thumbnail, new empty window appears and the whole system freezes.

2. When I try to open options of Flagfox addon, the same happens - empty window and system freeze up.

http://www.imageup.ru/img237/967908/2012-06-12-214104_765x812_scrot.png

3. In PCManFM clicking one concrete video file will open SMPlayer with freezed window (and the system as well).

http://www.imageup.ru/img237/967915/2012-06-12-215954_1000x531_scrot.png

Besides, the same may happen while expanding dropdown list boxes on some web pages.

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