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Version 1.3.3 under Lubuntu 15.10 does not respect window button placement

Bug #1512031 reported by Scott Cowles Jacobs
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Bug Description

I prefer to have the window close/minimize/maximize controls on the left, and have placed them there with Customize Look and Feel.
However, catfish places its own window controls on the right (with a different Theme, as well).

I checked the Preferences, in case (as with Chromium) there were an option to "Use System Title Bar and Borders", but found none.

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[This seems to be the same bug as with eog (Gnome Image Viewer),
and I have filed a bug report for that as well (Bug #1511616)

In case it is useful, I here quote a comment for that bug, that states:
"That has to do with the use of CSD/GtkHeaderBar that doesn't work great out of gnome-shell"

On that bug report page, it states that it apparently is an "upstream bug" and I ought to report it upstream as well.

If that is so here as well (as seems likely), tell me, and I will do the same for catfish as I will do for eog.]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: catfish 1.3.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sat Oct 31 19:27:27 2015
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: catfish
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707) wrote :
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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote :

As indicated in the description, this bug is outside of Catfish's control. If you want to use standard window controls, you can use the "use-headerbar" setting in ~/.config/catfish/catfish.rc

use-headerbar=false

Xfce gets around this issue completely by configuring the decoration layout, see http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit/?id=6a812b203769fc440267a0486f2775d2405bdc3d . It would probably benefit LXDE/Lubuntu to handle this as well in the window manager settings.

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Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707) wrote :

@Sean Davis (bluesabre)
Thank you for your reply - I didn't see it until today.

I did not find the config file, but when I did a search, I came across one of your replies
to another bug that stated "Catfish creates this file when you change the settings in the application.", so I clicked on "Hidden Files" and on "Sidebar", and the file was created.
I changed the option as you said, and after two tries (must have goofed something up...) it worked.

Thank you again.

I am going to try and see if the same technique works for eog, which does exactly the same thing with the window controls...

[Might I suggest that it become one of the Settings and/or a command-line option?]

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In , Bluesabre-1 (bluesabre-1) wrote :

From https://bugs.launchpad.net/catfish-search/+bug/1512031

I prefer to have the window close/minimize/maximize controls on the left, and have placed them there with Customize Look and Feel.
However, catfish places its own window controls on the right (with a different Theme, as well).

I checked the Preferences, in case (as with Chromium) there were an option to "Use System Title Bar and Borders", but found none.

-------

[This seems to be the same bug as with eog (Gnome Image Viewer),
and I have filed a bug report for that as well (Bug #1511616)

In case it is useful, I here quote a comment for that bug, that states:
"That has to do with the use of CSD/GtkHeaderBar that doesn't work great out of gnome-shell"

On that bug report page, it states that it apparently is an "upstream bug" and I ought to report it upstream as well.

If that is so here as well (as seems likely), tell me, and I will do the same for catfish as I will do for eog.]

Sean Davis (bluesabre)
Changed in catfish-search:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in catfish-search:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Gitbot (gitbot) wrote :

Sean Davis referenced this bugreport in commit 75dce159cb602d9d2c6f23d937a2e10e8080e613

Add DE detection for headerbar usage: use headerbar for Budgie, GNOME, and Pantheon; titlebar for all others (bug #14486)

https://git.xfce.org/apps/catfish/commit?id=75dce159cb602d9d2c6f23d937a2e10e8080e613

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In , Bluesabre-1 (bluesabre-1) wrote :

This issue should be resolved with the above commit. LXDE will now use the titlebar layout by default.

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status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707) wrote :

"LXDE will now use the titlebar layout by default."

Well, time marches on, and Lubuntu now has LXQt.

Should I assume that the comment also applies to LXQt as well?

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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote :

Yes, specifically: only Budgie, GNOME, and Pantheon will use the headerbar layout by default.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package catfish - 1.4.7-1

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catfish (1.4.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Fixed context menu activation (LP: #1788058)
    - Fixed crash with searching inside /dev (LP: #1772437)
    - Fixed window button placement in LXDE (LP: #1512031)
    - Fixed occasional crash at startup (LP: #1753163)
  * d/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 4.3.0, no changes needed.
  * d/copyright:
    - Bump source copyright years to 2019

 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:44:12 -0500

Changed in catfish (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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