Unity

Wine application displays dropdown menu in the wrong place

Bug #878678 reported by Heinrich Münz
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Compiz
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Compiz Core
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Low
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Unity
Expired
Low
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compiz (Ubuntu)
Expired
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unity (Ubuntu)
Expired
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Bug Description

I use Canon’s Digital Photo Professional under wine to edit my raw image files. This works great in general, but after updating to Oneiric, I experience some strange behaviour when starting it under 3D-Unity:

The application has a floating tool panel, similar to GIMP or Photoshop. When I click on a dropdown menu inside this panel, the menu will open outside the panel, somewhere in the left half of the application’s main window. Please take a look at the attached screenshot to see what I mean.

This bug didn’t occur in Natty, and it still doesn’t occur when I use 2D-Unity. So I suppose, it’s a (Compiz-)Unity issue.

I am using the latest versions from the official Ubuntu repositories.

Tags: wine
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Heinrich Münz (hmuenz) wrote :
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Heinrich Münz (hmuenz) wrote :

Additional system information:

Ubuntu Oneiric 64bit
Intel Core2Duo 2500
4 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 7200 (proprietary driver version 173)

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Glenn Chugg (glennlchugg) wrote :

I've noticed the same bug, it is able to be worked around by manually (with the mouse) moving (or just clicking) the title of the WINE app/game to get the correct position set for the form/window top position. It does it with any popup areas, Context Menu's, File Menu etc, Combo Boxes etc etc.

This bug also causes restoring the window of most WINE apps to position 0,0 on the available screen, it can be annoying as when you minimize a form that is centered and bring it back to the front it will also be shown at position 0,0 I must admit id does make the reported bug a non issue, but it's still handling window positions incorrectly, I've reported this bug in WINE, but I did mention that it's Compiz/Unity's fault so chances are they wont be working on it themselves because it doesn't affect non Unity 3D users.

Other Linux tools/games act as intended (no problems), so it's a relationship with how Compiz and WINE race each other for setting the window's initial position when form is set visible/restored.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Andreas E. (andreas-e) wrote :

It happens for me too. I think it's similar/related to bug 874067.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in compiz-core:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in compiz-core:
status: New → Confirmed
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Andrey Raugas (raugas) wrote :

I use BibleWorks 7.0 under Wine on Oneric. The same problem with dropdown menus and lists.

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Silviu C. (silviucc) wrote :

Still not fixed Precise alpha 1 with unity 5.0

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Crystal Lero (crystallero) wrote :

I fixed this annoying behaviour changing the window decorator configuration in compizconfig-settings-manager.

Install compizconfig-settings-manager, then go to "Window decoration" and click the option "Reset setting..." in "Command".

After clicking that, the new command should be: /usr/bin/compiz-decorator

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Heinrich Münz (hmuenz) wrote :

I cannot comfirm Crystal's fix. The same bug occurs with the suggested settings in ccsm - which are default settings anyway.

Omer Akram (om26er)
tags: added: wine
Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

Is this still a problem?

Changed in compiz:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in compiz-core:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Compiz Core because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in compiz-core:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Compiz because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in compiz:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for compiz (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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