On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:16:48 -0700 Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> said:
> So, I guess I knew why I was apprehensive about upgrading E again. I > guess I'm not lucky because each time I've done it, stuff that I do care > about, has broken. > > For now, Raster already knows about the dragging windows to edge flip > not working anymore. > > But more important is how when I resume from S3 sleep, I get sometimes > - very dark screen, brightness all the way down, I can't see anything, > or hardly anything until I fix the backlight level when e suspends it'll "fade the screen" which also involves ramping brightness down. on resume it does the reverse. it fades from black to normal and fades brightness back up. this hasn't changed in years with e. i can't remember - intel drivers? if so then the xserver controls the brightness - e just asks it via xrandr to do it. this does work reliably for me on my laptops (multiple - all intel though). > - things come back ok sometimes, but then my mouse cursor totally > disappears over parts of the screen and re-appears within some > windows, while disappearing on the background again. e also will emit signals to the pointer object to suspend/resume itself too (the theme will zoom and fade the cursor when this happens). i added this more recently because of another laptop where there are no actual brightness controls even if its an intel gpu (it's an oled screen). and this led to visible artefacts where the screen did fade to black but not the cursor which stays there then vanished suddenly (and the reverse on resume) so i added a cursor grab + fade it out to ensure it hides along with the rest of the screen. this isn't necessary in wayland because we can fade the pointer out too (e renders it as a canvas object), but is needed in x. again - works reliably for me across multiple laptops i have. they all do have intel gpu's and run arch linux. i can't see your problem or reproduce it. though admittedly i'm on git master (efl and e), and i don';t remember seeing this as an issue. > The only way to fix this is to force restart E when I come back from S3 > sleep :-/ > > - my volume gadget was removed from the bar where all the gadgets are, > and after a while I found that a mini volume slider gets grafted onto > some of my google-chrome windows. > Ok, I can see how that might be useful to control per window volume, > but this doesn't work with all apps, like xmms2. > Also, how do I get mute for everything now? your mixer should still be available... it has never been removed for me. make sure the mixer module is loaded... go double-check the shelf contents to see if the mixer gadget is there and added etc. ... > So, the first 2 seem like new bugs, the last one seems undesirable > behaviour at best, and I haven't found how to turn it off. > > Confused, > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet > cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP > 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
