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taskbar does not reflect currently selected workspace until I release Ctrl+Alt #109

Closed lersek closed 1 year ago

lersek commented 1 year ago

Not sure when this behavior changed, but it's weird (I've recently switched from 1.3.7 to 3.2.2).

Steps to reproduce:

  1. select Workspace#2
  2. close all windows here
  3. select Workspace#1
  4. close all windows here
  5. open a new window (start an xterm, whatever) on Workspace#1
  6. press and hold Ctrl+Alt
  7. press and release 2, but hold Ctrl+Alt (alternative step: press and release Cursor Right, but hold Ctrl+Alt)
  8. the desktop contents change (the window opened on Workspace#1 disappears from the main desktop area, as expected), but the taskbar is not updated. It still shows the button for the window from Workspace#1.
  9. Release Ctrl+Alt.
  10. The taskbar is now updated.

Desired behavior: the taskbar should, at all times, reflect the main desktop area, not just when Ctrl+Alt are released.

I assume this is intentional behavior, hence my filing this as a discussion and not as an issue.

What new preference can I use to restore the original behavior? Thank you.

Originally posted by @lersek in https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/discussions/108

gijsbers commented 1 year ago

See bbidulock/icewm#549.

lersek commented 1 year ago

@gijsbers thanks for the pointer, but I'm none the wiser :)

What @zaza42 describes here and what @danfe describes here is precisely my use case. How was it solved?

A reference to commit f074fb0cf405b9ec5191cd942c52c334c5ca1970 was made, and I've checked that commit now -- it does not introduce any new preference setting as far as I can tell, and it certainly does not solve the symptom I'm seeing. The commit has nearly zero documentation, the subject line says Only freeze task pane layout when a button was removed. The commit also does not seem to be a part of a larger patch series (it stands alone between f8a935a6d722c3b54f711dd0cfcc141120f7337c and ecc2bf2f54ab1bdd7e6e39930f546c17f865f236).

Can you please explain? Thank you.

lersek commented 1 year ago

... Aha, I got it now. Commit f074fb0cf405b9ec5191cd942c52c334c5ca1970 is part of tag 3.2.3, and I'm running 3.2.2 presently. I installed IceWM from EPEL9 on 2022-12-07, and back then, 3.2.3 had not yet been packaged for EPEL9. But now it has been, so I'll pick it up. Many thanks!

lersek commented 1 year ago

Release 3.2.3 is working fine for me, thank you again for the help.