window icons shown instead of previews

[alonswartz]

Occasionally, window previews are replaced with icons (see screenshot), but will be displayed correctly on a second invocation of --activate-window-picker.

Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce this on demand, so I can't provide information on when and why this happens. I am running metacity in standalone mode on Debian Wheezy.

I'll gladly provide any information or help I can in tracking down the cause of this issue.

[landroni]

Assuming that you're using latest GIT, the icon-previews are probably those of iconified windows (i.e. minimized). See issue #8, which seems relevant.

[alonswartz]

The windows are not iconified. As I mentioned above, when this happens I just hit ESC and then re-invoke the --activate-window-picker via keybinding and the window previews are displayed correctly. Sorry for not being clearer in my original post.

And yes, I'm using the latest version from git (#281a7d57).

[landroni]

Hmm, is it possible that the unminized windows are located on a different virtual desktop than the one where skippy-xd is activated? (It seems that I notice this issue here.)

[alonswartz]

I've set showAllDesktops = false, so it only displays windows on the active virtual desktop.

[richardgv]

Sorry for the late reply, alonawrtz.

I'm not able to reproduce the issue, so the debugging is probably going to be a bit painful for you.

Could you please apply this patch on 281a7d57, compile it, run it, reproduce the problem, and send us everything skippy-xd prints out?

diff --git a/src/clientwin.c b/src/clientwin.c
index 9f1aed0..bea966b 100644
--- a/src/clientwin.c
+++ b/src/clientwin.c
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ clientwin_update(ClientWin *cw) {
                    CompositeRedirectAutomatic);
            cw->redirected = true;
            cw->cpixmap = XCompositeNameWindowPixmap(ps->dpy, cw->src.window);
+           printfdf("(%#010lx): cpixmap = %#010lx",
+                   cw->wid_client, cw->cpixmap);
        }

        // Create window picture
diff --git a/src/clientwin.h b/src/clientwin.h
index 23897e1..371532a 100644
--- a/src/clientwin.h
+++ b/src/clientwin.h
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ clientwin_get_disp_mode(session_t *ps, ClientWin *cw) {
    for (client_disp_mode_t *p = ps->o.clientDisplayModes; *p; p++) {
        switch (*p) {
            case CLIDISP_THUMBNAIL:
+               printfdf("(%#010lx): map_state = %d, origin = %#010lx",
+                       cw->wid_client, wattr.map_state, cw->origin);
                if (IsViewable == wattr.map_state && cw->origin) return *p;
                break;
            case CLIDISP_ICON:

Does it only occur with daemon mode?

Does using no configuration (--config /dev/null) help? Could you please post your configuration file here?