When QGIS is started, a trembling window frame appears through the four desktops

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Author Name: Damien foggy67 (Damien foggy67) Original Redmine Issue: 12854 Affected QGIS version: 2.8.1 Redmine category:gui

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Hi, When I start the QGIS desktop 2.8.1 on my Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS laptop (32 bits), a trembling empty window frame appears on my screen, and dances through all the four desktops. QGIS is not usable at all because the frame is empty and is always dancing through the four desktops. QGIS causes no crash neither core dump. I just can quit QGIS with the help of the left bar on Unity. This bug is always reproductible.

But this bug does not occur just after installing QGIS with ppa, and starting it for the first time. Then the second and following starts make this bug to appear.

Very strange bug...

Foggy67

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• QGIS2.conf (Damien foggy67)
• QGISCUSTOMIZATION2.conf (Damien foggy67)
• .xsession-errors (Damien foggy67)

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Author Name: Damien foggy67 (Damien foggy67)

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I have some fresh news about this bug. When I delete the 2 configuration directories ~/.config/QGIS and ~/.qgis2, I can start QGIS Desktop again without any trouble and can work with it. The only strange thing is that QGIS starts in another desktop, than the one I work on.

It looks like that QGIS would save some corrupted informations in these 2 configuration directories, who make QGIS unusable for the next starts. Hereby I join 2 files.

I hope this may help...

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• 8760 was configured as QGIS2.conf
• 8761 was configured as QGISCUSTOMIZATION2.conf

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• QGIS2.conf (Damien foggy67)
• QGISCUSTOMIZATION2.conf (Damien foggy67)

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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after deleting the configuration files, can you replicate the issue?

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Damien foggy67 (Damien foggy67)

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Yes I can replicate the same issue, if I resize the main window on my screen. As long as I don't resize it, I can fully work with QGIS.

There seems to be an interference between the window resizing of QGIS and the desktop managment of Unity (compiz) in Ubuntu

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• operating_system was changed from Laptop HP Pavilion DV4000 32 bits to Ubuntu
• crashes_corrupts_data was changed from 1 to 0
• os_version was changed from Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.04
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open
• category_id was changed from Browser to GUI

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Author Name: Damien foggy67 (Damien foggy67)

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Hi

I join the .xsession-errors file, that shows a repetitive message when the empty frame of the QGIS window trembles. I hope that this will help.

** Message: moving back from GtkStatusIcon to indicator Warning: QGraphicsScene::addItem: item has already been added to this scene compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c00088 to texture

Damien

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• 8763 was configured as .xsession-errors

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• .xsession-errors (Damien foggy67)

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• regression was configured as 0
• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

Source: http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed
• resolution was changed from to end of life