Basically budgie uses Mutter, the GNOME window manager. So it will be updates to mutter that you will see resolution of issues like this.
The other thing you could try is look at budgie desktop settings and turn off window animations. On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, 16:48 Pascal, <pascal.mart...@gmx.fr> wrote: > Package: budgie-desktop > Version: 10.5.2-3 > Followup-For: Bug #990678 > X-Debbugs-Cc: pascal.mart...@gmx.fr > > Dear Maintainer, > > I had the opportunity to use software in Budgie recently and even made > (quick) > tests with most of the applications I have on my PC. So I came again across > those same bugs about window displaying. Those bugs come unexpectedly, they > happen rarely now, but they still DO happen. > > Apart from MPV, of which I abundantly talked about here above, the first > striking and undeniable bug I came across was with QuteBrowser. It's a nice > browser I use when Firefox is not quick enough. When quitting it (by > clicking > the x close button upright or typing <Ctrl+q> I don't remember, though it > may > be important) the window apparently stayed open and the "cleverly hidden" > Budgie tool bar/panel reappeared. In fact QuteBrowser was really shut and > the > desktop should have been displayed instead, which it did when I refreshed > the > screen. > Of all the applications I tested, all seemed to work fine (they generally > do) > except DevHelp. In that program too, the menu window "Shortcuts" generally > doesn't display as being shut when in fact it is. > > At that point, the least thing you do that refreshes the screen makes > things > come to normal, and all visible evidence of the bug is gone. For example > pressing the <Super> key (MS-Windows key), <Alt+Tab>, making a screenshot, > etc. > So if we act too quickly we always miss those bugs, the more so as they > generally come unnoticed, and fortunately much more rarely than they did a > few > months ago. > So we notice the bug by stopping our work, because what we see on the > screen is > not understandable : We close a window and it is still there, we move a > window > and we don't see it move. Then we refresh the screen and the closed window > has > gone and the moved window has moved. > > That problem of windows that can't be moved, I observed again with Abiword. > Abiword is a program I like a lot but it is not heavily maintained / > updated. > Now, rather often, the menu windows seem to close correctly but they move > badly. You grab a window to move it and nothing happens (unlike MPV where > you > see some kind of transparent window frame moving). That window seems to be > frozen. When you refresh the screen you see that it had effectively moved, > invisibly. > > Since things have improved with Budgie these last months, if little or > nothing > has been done about these window bugs, the improvement may have come from > the > Gnome updates, so what updates and when ? And why do those bugs not happen > everytime, as generally expected from a bug ? Is it some kind of Budgie > screen > refreshment, compositor / display server problem ? Just asking to help, I > could > do no more alas ! > > So I wanted to report this quickly, not waiting for new evidence, because > of > the expected Debian 11 stable. I read things about a possible date release > but > I wouldn't risk to repeat it, Debian's policy of "It is ready when it is > ready" > is surely the best one. > > Please excuse my verbosity, it's a personal shortcoming ;) and I want to > be as > clear and precise as possible. > > Cordially, > Pascal > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 11.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE > not > set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages budgie-desktop depends on: > ii budgie-core 10.5.2-3 > ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.38.0-2 > ii gir1.2-budgie-1.0 10.5.2-3 > ii gnome-control-center 1:3.38.4-1 > ii gnome-menus 3.36.0-1 > ii network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3 > > Versions of packages budgie-desktop recommends: > ii budgie-desktop-view 1.1.1-1 > > Versions of packages budgie-desktop suggests: > ii gnome-terminal 3.38.3-1 > ii nautilus 3.38.2-1 > pn slick-greeter <none> >
