Screenlets applications moving around after a restart in Ubuntu 11.10

How it looks after a restart.

It's probably connected to the comments in the end of this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/345359

So the screenlets move regularly into the same y-axis position, but x-axis is fine? Any more regularities?

Are you using the latest Screenlets from PPA? What is the exact version?

I have downloaded the Screenlets from the "Ubuntu software center" and all avaible updates ared done to. So I suppose it's the latest version of it.

Sometimes they are at the correct place after a restart. And next time it can be on the wrong place again.

I also installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a friends laptop and the behaviour is same there as in my own PC.

After the latest updates it seems like this problem are solved. My Screenlets are at same place now even after a restart.
So I suppose this can be closed if nobody else still got this problem.

Please let us know if the problems continue to happen. I see that three people say they are affected by this problem. Maybe the problem occurs only after some of the first launches and then disappears?

It seems that the problem is caused by Unity changing screen parameters in the middle of a screenlets loading/drawing themselves.

There are things in the logs like:

   Screen geometry changed
   Starting unity-window-decorator
   DEBUG 2011-11-04 20:01:21 glib <unknown>:0 Setting to primary screen rect: x=0 y=0 w=1024 h=768

And it seems when a screenlet is loaded during these changes, it will place itself wrong. I think that the solution would be to delay starting of screenlets, i. e. in ~/.config/autostart/*Screenlet.desktop add on the "Exec= sleep 5 && python -u ..." to delay starting the screenlet 5 seconds later (when Unity is probably already loaded).

If you have this problem and this solution works, please tell us so, maybe this bug can be fixed for good.

Oh, probably you cannot just put "sleep 5 &&" there in the middle, but have to do it like

   Exec= bash -c "sleep 5 && python -u /usr/share/screenlets/screenlets-pack-basic/Lipik/LipikScreenlet.py"

It have happend again for me. So I will stop using the Screenlets to this problem are solved.

I have noticed this seems to happend after some update packages are released and when it ask to "restart" the computer.

I think I have found a workaround for the problem. I hope it will be available in Screenlets Dev PPA in next 24h.

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/904040

Is this bug a duplicate of bug #872755?

Now I marked this bug as duplicate of #872755, but it should be the other way around.

Still an issue with latest version 0.1.7~bzr836 on both Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 (both 64-bit).