Comment 7 for bug 437378

can sonemone confirm it also occurs with the cairo backend (that's to say
the xrender one), using "cairo-dock -c" ?
thanks !

2011/1/5 Fabrice Rey <email address hidden>

> the dock only uses a gdk_move_resize, so the bug would be in GDK, but I
> don't think so.
> for me, it's the WM's job to correctly handle a move+resize event. if
> Compiz can do it, there is obviously a correct way to do it, don't you think
> so ?
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> 2011/1/5 Bellegarde Cedric <email address hidden>
>
> bugs appear with every window manager i test:
>> - metacity
>> - openbox
>> - kwin
>> - blackbox
>> - ...
>>
>> Only working window manager is compiz so i guess bug is in cairo dock
>> and not in window managers...
>>
>> Here what kwin devs think about it:
>>
>> "The claimed assumption that kwin would set size and position
>> independently if
>> there's a combined configure request is (afaics) wrong, the geometry
>> update is
>> blocked in the configure request until everything's done
>> (position/size/contrainment)"
>>
>> And it works with compiz because compiz set size and position
>> independently due to it plugin architecture...
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437378
>>
>> Title:
>> Some flashes appears when a window is resized
>>
>> Status in Cairo-Dock : Core:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in KDE Base Components:
>> Unknown
>> Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
>> New
>> Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
>> Triaged
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Binary package hint: metacity
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm part of the Cairo-Dock team. Cairo-Dock is a dock using Cairo/OpenGL
>> backend. It needs a composite support and it works almost well with
>> Metacity. There is just one problem : some flashes appear (often) and the
>> dock is moved quickly when the window used by Cairo-Dock is resized. In fact
>> Cairo-Dock resizes its window when the dock is active.
>> Can you have a look to this screencast? http://videobin.org/+fx/if.html
>>
>> It seems that it's an old bug but sorry for that, we have never report
>> this bug here. I have tested on Gnome 2.26 (Jaunty) and 2.28 (Karmic - just
>> before my other computer breaks down :/ ). Mutter is also affected by this
>> bug
>> This bug is much present now because the resizing is more used.
>>
>> You can find all informations about the installation of Cairo-Dock there :
>> http://www.cairo-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Accueil&lang=en#0-Installation
>> Our project page on launchpad : https://launchpad.net/cairo-dock
>> Our source code : https://code.launchpad.net/cairo-dock
>>
>> Thanks for your help and many thanks for your great project!
>>
>> PS : Bug in Gnome Bugzilla :
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596464
>>
>>
>>
>> ProblemType: Bug
>> Architecture: i386
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
>> Package: metacity 1:2.25.144-0ubuntu2.1
>> ProcEnviron:
>> LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>> SourcePackage: metacity
>> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
>>
>>
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