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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

[feature request] mapping of minimized windows

Bug #566896 reported by Florian M. on 2010-04-19

This bug affects 10 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz-fusion-plugins-main (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

Using desktop effects (Compiz Fusion) in Ubuntu I like to have an overview about running applications and windows. For this i use the Scale plugin. Unfortunately it doesn't shows all my open applications, this is because they are minimized. I would like to be showed all windows, not dependent whether I minimized them before.

As I understand from various old forum threads this behaviour is more or less by design, because the mapping for minimized windows is removed and there is nothing Compiz Fusion could show.

Is there a will to implement this in one way or another?

ubuntuforums thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481038
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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100413)
MachineType: LENOVO 7454CTO
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=/dev/sda2 loop=/hostname/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 05/18/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6DET53WW (3.03 )
dmi.board.name: 7454CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6DET53WW(3.03):bd05/18/2009:svnLENOVO:pn7454CTO:pvrThinkPadX200:rvnLENOVO:rn7454CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7454CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X200
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic

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Tags:

Florian M. (flomar) on 2010-04-19

summary:

- No mapping of minimized windows
+ [feature request] mapping of minimized windows

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2010-04-20:

Hi Florian,

Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER', which will attach several files we need for debugging.

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tags:	added: needs-xorglog
tags:	added: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20:

I will run apport if it is needed. But I intentionally left out this information, thinking it will not be needed for a feature request. Thus, there is nothing wrong with my system, you could say it's not a bug, it's a feature - or for me, a missing feature. If there is no further replies I will attach the files tonight.

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: BootDmesg.txt

BootDmesg.txt Edit (51.5 KiB, text/plain)

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tags:	added: apport-collected
description:	updated

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: CurrentDmesg.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: Dependencies.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: GdmLog.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: GdmLog1.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: GdmLog2.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: Lspci.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: Lsusb.txt

#10

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: PciDisplay.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: ProcCpuinfo.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: ProcInterrupts.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: ProcModules.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: RelatedPackageVersions.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: UdevDb.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: UdevLog.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: XorgLog.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: XorgLogOld.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: Xrandr.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: monitors.xml.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: setxkbmap.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: xdpyinfo.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20: xkbcomp.txt

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-20:

#25

content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log Edit (38.4 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-04-21

tags:

added: lucid

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-04-21

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-21:

#26

Although I think it is not a bug in compiz-fusion I linked it as affected because 95% of the users will look for it under compiz and not xorg. I hope thats alright, if that's not how things work in launchpad, i'm sorry, remove it.

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-22:

#27

Finally found a bug that is based on the same base problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/402821
Was part of "One Hundred Paper Cuts" for Karmic, but didn't get fixed.

tags:

added: ayatana

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2010-04-23:

#28

Please take the issue directly upstream. While this seems to be a legitimate need, it's not something we have plans to work on in the Ubuntu-X team. The work needs done upstream, so it would be better for you to explain the need to the developers directly on the xorg mailing list.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Won't Fix

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-04-23:

#29

Thank you for your anwser Bryce, I did as you said and wrote to the xorg mailinglist.

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Chris Conway (cconway) wrote on 2010-06-04:

#30

Florian, Can you post a link to the upstream bug? I'd like to see a fix for this too.

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Florian M. (flomar) wrote on 2010-06-04:

#31

Hey Chris,

i went to the xorg people, however they said that, i quote "minimized windows is entirely a window manager concept." and has to be done by the compiz developers. I didn't play the ping pong game any further, as i expect a similar answer from the compiz developers.

I'd be happy if you would put some effort in this issue, I also would like to see a fix!

Thanks,
Florian

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote on 2010-06-05:

#32

This is actually a standards issue. The xorg folks are technically right as the fix we'd want from them would be to make unmapping a window not actually unmap it which isn't a good idea. What we need is a way to stop showing the window and not send input to it either. This will most likely involve changes to every application (or at least to every toolkit) as well as to WMs that want to support this.

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Sam Volojiy (svolo) wrote on 2010-06-15:

#33

Just want to make you guys aware that this bug has been addressed in KDE.
It is an option in the "display" settings in the systems settings that also currently carries a warning that it "breaks minimize".
What I think (I've not confirmed it) they have done is that kwin is faking minimize by hiding windows, but still making their content visible to the internal KDE implementation of compiz. This way windows are not visible to you, but are visible to the compositing engine.
Works quite nice with the KDE "place windows" task switcher, which is a better version of compiz's "scale" plugin. I just wish KDE was a little faster.

Sam Volojiy (svolo) on 2010-06-15

Changed in compiz-fusion-plugins-main (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote on 2010-12-03:

#34

Implemented in the workarounds plugin

Changed in compiz-fusion-plugins-main (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Andrew Hamblin (lextori) wrote on 2011-03-04:

#35

Which option is fixed in the workarounds, and which version of the plugins are needed for this?

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