Eric, tshirtman, Really appreciate your sharing your approaches for a work around to keep this feature in oneiric and perhaps pangolin.
For my level of expertise, i'll remain patient a little longer before diving in with spanner and wrench :) Thanks again, Karl On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 00:45, tshirtman <gabriel.pett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le lun. 19 mars 2012 23:57:00 CET, Gabriel Pettier a écrit : > > Le lun. 19 mars 2012 23:34:55 CET, Eric Bennett a écrit : > >> Hi Karl, > >> > >> I should note in advance that at the end of the day, the fix posted up > >> there ended up segfaulting my compiz after a few random updates to > >> oneiric in mainline, I recompiled it a few times and eventually got so > >> tired of it I just reverted back to natty after trying pangolin (it's > >> not just broken there but *totally* broken, if I recall correctly the > >> plugin completely fails to work) and finding it no better. > >> > >> I also tried nuking the *entire* compiz distro and all supporting > >> infrastructure and rebuilding from source, but this is not much of a > >> better solution either, random segfaults aplenty still. > >> > >> > >> For those that wish to continue with this line of wrestling in > >> oneiric or pangolin you will want to be checking > >> http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Grid , you can grab the source via git > >> and recompile like so; > >> > >> git clone http://cgit.compiz-fusion.org/compiz/plugins/grid/ > >> > >> cd grid > >> mkdir build > >> cd build > >> cmake ../ > >> make > >> sudo make install > >> > >> But please keep in mind the problems I've iterated above and consider if > >> you really want to go through this yourself. > >> > >> Best of luck. > >> > > > > I think it's probably easier to look at compiz-plugins-main history on > > launchpad > > ( > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz-team/compiz-plugins-main/0.9.7/changes > > or one of the others, or maybe > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lbrulet-8/compiz-plugins-main/fix-876591/revision/21 > ), > > find the first offending commit, and revert it in the current package > > source to rebuild the package. > > > > note that i didn't say «easy» i said «easier». But anybody finding the > > time to restore the cycling on left/right (whatever key si configured > > to them) will have my gratitude. > > i would really try more to understand this patch if i had more time, > it's the most probable one to be linked to this bug in the set of > patches in the compij-plugins-main source package, alas my c++ foo is > really bad, and i really lack time to dive more into that. > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lbrulet-8/compiz-plugins-main/fix-876591/revision/21#debian/patches/fix-862260.patch > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878820 > > Title: > Window Management, Keyboard shortcut - The grid keybindings are > behaving inconsistently > > Status in Ayatana Design: > Fix Committed > Status in Compiz Main Plugins: > Invalid > Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in “compiz-plugins-main” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in “compiz” source package in Oneiric: > Won't Fix > Status in “compiz-plugins-main” source package in Oneiric: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > When placing windows on left or right (ctrl+alt+4, ctrl+alt+6), the > windows do not cycle through different sizes, occupying only half of > the screen. The rest of placing locations works perfectly. > > The problem was initially reported in bug #862260, and supposedly > fixed. I am using compiz-plugins-main and compiz-plugins-main-default > version 1:0.9.6-0ubuntu4, and the problem persists. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > At the moment we are in a halfway house with some of the absolute > positioning shortcuts working and some of the variable positioning > shortcuts working, and we need to take a decision as to which path to > follow. The absolute positioning shortcuts have the benefit of > greater simplicity and less scope for confusion so this is the path I > propose we should follow. When using absolute positioning users to > not need to be aware of the current window state before pressing the > key combo, which makes the operation quicker and less prone to > unwanted results. > > Desired Resolution - the default behaviour should be: > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 7 - Place window in top left corner of screen. > Pressing a second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 8 - Place window in top half of screen. Pressing a > second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 9 - Place window in top right corner of screen. > Pressing a second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 4 - Place window on the left side of the screen in > *semi-maximised* state (it is important that the window is actually > semi-maximised, not just the same size and position as a semi- > maximised window) Pressing a second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 5 - Maximize window. If window is already Maximised, > pressing this key combo restores the window to the exact same size, > shape and position it was before it was Maximised. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 6 - Place window on the right side of the screen (it > is important that the window is actually semi-maximised, not just the > same size and position as a semi-maximised window). Pressing a second > time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 1 - Place window in the bottom left corner of the > screen. Pressing a second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 2 - Place window in the bottom half of the screen. > Pressing a second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 3 - Place window in the bottom right corner of the > screen. Pressing a second time does nothing. > > Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 0 - Minimise window. > > > Note: in order for this bug to be fixed, Compiz needs to be amended to > support multiple key bindings > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/878820/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878820 Title: Window Management, Keyboard shortcut - The grid keybindings are behaving inconsistently To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/878820/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp