Gwibber

Gwibber forgets window settings between launches

Bug #614345 reported by Oli
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Bug Description

Gwibber forgets to persist two things:

 - Window position, dimensions
 - Sidebar width

The first seems simple enough. Just store the x,y,w,h onmove/onresize, read it onlaunch, check that x,y is valid and move/resize the window accordingly.

The second is even more simple. Just remember the sidebar width. Just wang it in gconf if there isn't a better place. I think this might even be a regression.

To display these bugs just move your window from its launched position, resize the sidebar, exit gwibber and launch it again. Note: I'm not talking about minimising to tray; you have to close it completely.

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Oli (oli)
description: updated
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Ben Howell (howellbp) wrote :

Gwibber retains window settings as long as the client is running in the background. All window settings are lost and reset to the default 1/3rd-screen-scale upon closing/restarting Ubuntu. I'm having the same issue in Gwibber 2.31.6 from the gwibber-daily PPA, Ubuntu Lucid.

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Tuxi (beck-ripabe) wrote :

My issue is that position is not retained even when running in the background (2.31.90 on Lucid, using ppa gwibber-daily). A second issue is that when closed (not backgrounded) the multiple streams I like to have open are not retained.

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Will Gray (graywh) wrote :

2.31.92~bzr842-0ubuntu1~daily1~lucid exhibits the same behavior of not remembering window placement when being closed or minimized to tray.

Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)
Changed in gwibber:
status: New → Confirmed
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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

I can't reproduce this with trunk, can someone still experiencing the problem please comment with the result of these commands?

gconftool --get /apps/gwibber/preferences/window_position
gconftool --get /apps/gwibber/preferences/window_size

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Oli (oli) wrote : Re: [Bug 614345] Re: Gwibber forgets window settings between launches

oli@bert:~$ gconftool --get /apps/gwibber/preferences/window_position
No value set for `/apps/gwibber/preferences/window_position'
oli@bert:~$ gconftool --get /apps/gwibber/preferences/window_size
No value set for `/apps/gwibber/preferences/window_size'

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Ken VanDine <email address hidden>wrote:

> I can't reproduce this with trunk, can someone still experiencing the
> problem please comment with the result of these commands?
>
> gconftool --get /apps/gwibber/preferences/window_position
> gconftool --get /apps/gwibber/preferences/window_size
>
> --
> Gwibber forgets window settings between launches
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614345
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Will Gray (graywh) wrote :

2.31.93~bzr848-0ubuntu1~daily1~lucid

Changed in gwibber:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Oli (oli) wrote :

I'm running 2.31.93~bzr848-0ubuntu1~daily1~lucid

Problem still exists here.
 - Ran gwibber.
 - Moved it to the bottom left, resized the toolbar.
 - Killed gwibber.
 - Ran gwibber.

And gwibber was still opening top right. I thought this might be a one-off but repeated that cycle twice more and it still opens top-right.

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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

@Oli: Gwibber stores settings after a correct quit - using menu - has occurred. Please, try this and reopen the issue, if it is still reproducible

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Oli (oli) wrote :

@Vadim: Confirmed.

Only in the past couple of days has the quit option actually worked. In the
past it has only minimised it.

I'm not talking about hitting the X, I really mean going the to the tray
menu or the "Gwibber" window menu (where File would traditionally be) and
clicking Quit, or just hitting Control+Q, minimised the window without
quitting... But that's a different bug entirely and it's fixed now anyway.

However, I still think it would make more sense to listen to events like
OnMove and OnResize.

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