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Some programs don't 'popup' to 100%; they stay half-zoomed-out. #2166

Closed Redsandro closed 10 years ago

Redsandro commented 11 years ago

In Cinnamon, when you start an application, it sort of 'pops up', zooms in to 100% as part of the fancy transition. Nothing wrong with that.

However, at random times, a program does not complete this pop or zoom or how you call it, and stays frozen at 20% or 80%. This makes them unworkable, because apart from obvious reasons, the mouse-click-area is at 100% so even if you just have a simple task, you have to find out where to click by trial and error.

Because this happens so random and not very often, I have never reported this issue. But now I notice that PyRenamer does this almost all the time, to the point where I cannot get it to start in a workable fashion.

screenshot from 2013-06-10 15 57 15

At the location of the tooltip is the mousecursor (not shown because this causes issues), hovering over a filename from PyRenamer that would be there if the window had been zoomed to 100%.

Another program that does this above-average often is Firefox.

AlbertJP commented 11 years ago

Are you perhaps using the NVIDIA graphics driver? For me on a GeForce 6200, the problem was gone when going to Nouveau (but I needed linux 3.8 kernel for Nouveau to be usable).

Redsandro commented 11 years ago

True.

GeForce GTX 660 Ti OpenGL4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88

But politics aside, switching from the proprietary driver to open is like switching from Vodka to Malt Beer. For my personal usage, this introduces more tears than it fixes. :)

Some programs seem to never do this, while others seem to do this all the time. This leads me to the conclusion that something in the code from the program can cause or prevent this, while at the same time certsain other desktop managers cannot be triggered to do this, even if they also use the proprietary driver. Confusing problem.

abrucey commented 11 years ago

This seems to be a commonly experienced bug

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=103662 https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1093954 https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/1283

AlbertJP commented 11 years ago

On the links you posted, there are a few reports of it on Intel graphics too - while graphics drivers may certainly be involved, it's not just an NVIDIA 304.88 problem then (I used 304.88 too before switching to Nouveau).