Hi, When opening a gvim windows, the bottom part is out the screen which is cumbersome to use the integrated command line. The behavior appear only 4.6.2-1. I downgrade xfwm4 to 4.6.1-1 and the bug goes away. Still the bug can be in vim because it seems to work with others application. Step to reproduce the problem. 1/ Open a terminal (xfce4-terminal). 2/ Increase the windows terminal size because the size of the windows gvim seems related to the size of the terminal. 3/ Move the terminal in the up of the screen to ensure the gvim windows will be open in the bottom of the screen. 4/ Launch gvim from the terminal 5/ Bottom of gvim windows is hidden. Note: I attached a screenshot of the bottom of my screen. On the left the gvim windows cut. On the middle the terminal. On the right a standard full gvim windows. Cheers,
Hmmh, seems I can't reproduce that, but I do notice weird behaviors with gvim windows run from a terminal Basically, it seems that it tries to inherit the window size from the terminal. Depending on how you configured smart placement in xfwm4, that might be related. Here, the smart placement is configured to be active even for small windows. What is your smart placement setting? (in settings manager, window manager tweaks, placement) Cheers,
On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:24:40 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote: Well I try to play with smart placement. I used the option "at center of the screen". When smart placement is on large. It disable the smart placement, and so the windows is at the center of the screen so no a problem. When it is enabled for small size I have the issue. For the moment I will disable the smart placement. The issue seems to occured when the smart placement tools place the gvim windows in the bottom. Cheers
Fwiw, I use “Under the mouse cursor” and the size at minimum, and it doesn't trigger (meaning, if there's not enough room to place the gvim window, it'll overlap the terminal window, not go outside the screen). Something which might be worth investigating is if you had at one point another screen plugged in and detected? Maybe it would confuse xfwm? Or is it reproducible even just after starting X, without anything else plugged in? Cheers,
Hi, Not sure if I understand correctly. I have only one monitor. So I unplugged it in the startup. Launch my PC, wait enough and replug it. Still same behavior. I also done a test with a new fresh user and a fresh vim configuration. Same issue. Additional note, it need some space between the terminal and the bottom of the screen. I do not know if it could help. When I open a thunar window, it is in the good place (aka not off-screen). If I maximize the vim window, then it is go back to the screen. Screen size seems to be fine. Well I have found something strange. It is possible to configure menu bar/tools bar etc... in gvim. When I disable everything. My window is good. In this situation gvim windows is smaller than the terminal one. When I enable some bars. My windows is bad. The size of the part offscreen seems equal of the bars. And gvim window is bigger than the terminal one. IMHO it is probably worth it to investigate the inheritance size of window. Cheers.
Hi, Here additional information from anothers user. Like him, I hide a bottom taskbar. Hope it can help. Cheers, Gregory ***************************************************** When opening gvim as a large window (gvim -geom 180x70) its smart placed below the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. If the taskbar is set to autohide, gvim will drop off the screen. Maybe 10 pixels are lost, if started with a file (gvim /etc/services) then i lose the tail of the 'p' in 'Top' in the bottom right corner. When starting xterm as a large window (xterm -geom 100x100) its placed accurately within the screen and above the taskbar. Starting xterm as a small window places it centrally as expected, depending on the slider configuration for window smart placement. Interestingly when gvim is started as a small window, same size as xterm (-geom 30x20), its not centrally placed, but smart placed around the edge of the screen, as I have a lot of windows open. When a small gvim is placed along the bottom it still is shifted down behind the taskbar, but not as far as a large window is. It seems as though xfce does not know the exact size of the gvim window to place it accurately and to know whether to smart place it or not.