kdiff3 on xfce 4.14.5, window decorations missing?

Mark Mielke mark.mielke at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 03:55:13 CET 2020


Just to confirm, Olivier was correct. Here is the Pull Request I
raised to the "master" branch:

https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3/-/merge_requests/8/

Thanks, Olivier. And thanks for working for all of you working on
Xfce. I keep trying others, but always returning to Xfce. :-)

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 7:12 AM Mark Mielke <mark.mielke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 4:43 AM Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 23:49, Mark Mielke <mark.mielke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sometimes the kdiff3 window decorations would be missing. I was able
> > > to reproduce this on Fedora 32. 50% of the time I can reproduce with:
>
> > I think it's a bug in kdiff3, not xfwm4.
> >
> > For some reason kdiff3 switches to fullscreen in that situation, hence
> > the non-decorated window. FWIW, it's the same in GNOME afaics.
> >
> > I think it's a race, kdiff3 trying to restore a wrong state at startup
> > or something.
>
> I think you are right. Your guidance lead me to this recent "fix":
>
> https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3/-/commit/f2d89bbc1407fd32d2517bf08983c6a883a6b205
>
> It looks like it was recognized as a problem, but I guess the fix
> wasn't correct either.
>
> I'll continue on this path.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Mark Mielke <mark.mielke at gmail.com>



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