initial app surface size wrong

Hmm weird, can't see that here.

Can you please:

$ rm ~/.cache/unity8/windowstatestorage.sqlite

And restart unity8? See if the problem persists?

tried that and did nothing (obviously), it's not a problem with initial window size

the launcher menu is also wrong see screenshot.

it always opens in the same place upper left corner

The only idea I have is that your display scale (grid unit size) is being changed and gets broken... Can you reproduce this in clean user account?

i see this in unity8.log while playing with dotty

[2016-59-26:13:59:28.369] qtmir.applications: Application["com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.dotty_dotty"]::setInitialSurfaceSize(size=QSize(-1, -1))
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.372] qtmir.surfaces: MirSurfaceItem::MirSurfaceItem
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.375] qtmir.surfaces: MirSurfaceItem::setSurface surface=QObject(0x0)
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.376] qtmir.surfaces: MirSurfaceItem::setOrientationAngle(0)
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.376] qtmir.surfaces: MirSurfaceItem::setSurface surface=QObject(0x0)
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.390] qtmir.applications: Application["com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.dotty_dotty"]::setInitialSurfaceSize(size=QSize(80, 56))
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.404] unity.topsurfacelist: raiseId(id=10) - Model busy (modelState=1). Try again in the next event loop.
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.405] file:///usr/share/unity8//Stages/DesktopStage.qml:258:23: QML FocusScope: Binding loop detected for property "requestedY"
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.405] file:///usr/share/unity8//Stages/DesktopStage.qml:258:23: QML FocusScope: Binding loop detected for property "requestedX"
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.407] qtmir.surfaces: MirSurface[0x55da3257ac90,"unity8-dash"]::updateActiveFocus() unfocused
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.408] qtmir.applications: Application["com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.dotty_dotty"]::setInitialSurfaceSize(size=QSize(801, 56))
[2016-59-26:13:59:28.409] qtmir.applications: Application["com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.dotty_dotty"]::setInitialSurfaceSize(size=QSize(801, 637))

and for the launcher's menu position i see this "file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:761; TypeError: Type error

761: property int itemCenter: item ? root.mapFromItem(quickList.item).y + (item.height /2) + quickList.item.offset : units.gu(1)

Is Unity8 unconditionally resizing all app windows (to a wrong size) on start-up? That's what it feels like. But I assumed that was my fault for using --desktop_file_hint=unity8 on everything.

at first run? yes, all app windows have the same size but if resize the window the app resizes fine :>

We respect the requested size if the app provided one, otherwise we default to a size - and on next start we restore the same size this app had when closed.

> 761: property int itemCenter: item ? root.mapFromItem(quickList.item).y + (item.height /2) + quickList.item.offset : units.gu(1)

dinamic, can you please try and print these values, write something like:

property int itemCenter: {
  console.debug(item);
  console.debug(quickList.item);
  console.debug(root.mapFromItem(quickList.item).y);
  console.debug(quickList.item.offset);
  console.debug(units.gu(1));
  return item ? root.mapFromItem(quickList.item).y + (item.height /2) + quickList.item.offset : units.gu(1);
}

This will print the values every time this property is evaluated, should help in identifying what the problem is.

@saviq sure :>

[2016-51-27:10:51:51.756] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65d294910, "launcherDelegate7")
[2016-51-27:10:51:51.756] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65d294910, "launcherDelegate7")
[2016-51-27:10:51:51.756] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.412] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cfa8460, "launcherDelegate6")
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.412] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cfa8460, "launcherDelegate6")
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.412] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.652] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cfa8460, "launcherDelegate6")
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.652] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cfa8460, "launcherDelegate6")
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.652] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.860] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cfa8460, "launcherDelegate6")
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.860] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cfa8460, "launcherDelegate6")
[2016-51-27:10:51:52.860] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.076] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65d1dea10, "launcherDelegate5")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.076] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65d1dea10, "launcherDelegate5")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.076] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.260] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65d1dea10, "launcherDelegate5")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.260] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65d1dea10, "launcherDelegate5")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.260] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.508] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cf28450, "launcherDelegate4")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.508] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cf28450, "launcherDelegate4")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.508] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.732] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cf28450, "launcherDelegate4")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.732] qml: LauncherDelegate_QMLTYPE_70_QML_77(0x55e65cf28450, "launcherDelegate4")
[2016-51-27:10:51:53.732] file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml:764: TypeError: Type error

@dinamic, are you using yakkety with proposed enabled? What's your Qt version? We're seeing similar errors with Qt 5.6.1, released yesterday to yakkety-proposed - bug #1606835.

@saviq yes i have proposed enabled. and yes looks like it's the same bug

I've the same problem