Full Screen mode behaves differently on two identical systems
Hey All, I have 2 computers, both running Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel2.6.27-9-generic). When my gtkmm application goes to full screen mode, and the user brings up any modal dialog (which is a child of the application main window), on one system everything looks fine. On the other, I get the System menu (Applications Places System) appearing instead of the application menu. When the dialog closes, the Application menu comes back. This is somewhat disconcerting to my users *grin*. Clearly, the systems are different somehow, but I'm at a loss as to exactly where and why it would make a difference. I have multiple examples of each behavior. So far, it seems that older PCs and newer netbooks have the bad behavior, while my development laptops and some newer desktop PCs work flawlessly. The same bad/good behavior happened when all my machines were running Ubuntu 8.04 with multiple kernels. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Garth Upshaw Garth's KidStuff ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: Full Screen mode behaves differently on two identical systems
I have 2 computers, both running Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel2.6.27-9-generic). When my gtkmm application goes to full screen mode, and the user brings up any modal dialog (which is a child of the application main window), on one system everything looks fine. On the other, I get the System menu (Applications Places System) appearing instead of the application menu. When the dialog closes, the Application menu comes back. This is somewhat disconcerting to my users *grin*. Clearly, the systems are different somehow, but I'm at a loss as to exactly where and why it would make a difference. I have multiple examples of each behavior. So far, it seems that older PCs and newer netbooks have the bad behavior, while my development laptops and some newer desktop PCs work flawlessly. The same bad/good behavior happened when all my machines were running Ubuntu 8.04 with multiple kernels. Any ideas? Are you moving executables or recompiling from machine to machine? Are the compiler versions the same across the machines? -- Marshall Lake -- ml...@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: Full Screen mode behaves differently on two identical systems
I have found myself some weird behaviour with fullscreen mode and modal windows in Gnome. I would suggest: 1) try a decent window manager, such as Enlightenment. This solved my issues. Of course this is not a good solution, but at least tells you where the problem is. 2) I guess you are using Gtk dialog widgets for your child dialogs. Try replacing one by a Gtk window widget, just to see if you get the same behavior. Using window widgets gives you 5 min more of work but in compensation you get a lot more control over your dialog. Cheers, Carlos On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Marshall Lake ml...@mlake.net wrote: I have 2 computers, both running Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel2.6.27-9-generic). When my gtkmm application goes to full screen mode, and the user brings up any modal dialog (which is a child of the application main window), on one system everything looks fine. On the other, I get the System menu (Applications Places System) appearing instead of the application menu. When the dialog closes, the Application menu comes back. This is somewhat disconcerting to my users *grin*. Clearly, the systems are different somehow, but I'm at a loss as to exactly where and why it would make a difference. I have multiple examples of each behavior. So far, it seems that older PCs and newer netbooks have the bad behavior, while my development laptops and some newer desktop PCs work flawlessly. The same bad/good behavior happened when all my machines were running Ubuntu 8.04 with multiple kernels. Any ideas? Are you moving executables or recompiling from machine to machine? Are the compiler versions the same across the machines? -- Marshall Lake -- ml...@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net Both. I've tried building on the good machine and moving to the bad as well as building on the bad. In either case, the bad machines exhibit the bad behavior. And yes, the compiler versions are the same. I can really take 2 machines, install Ubuntu 8.10 on each, get all the build-essentials etc. that I need, and build up 2 executables that work differently on each machine. ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
