GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 696662
toolbox cannot be moved when width set to two columns
Last modified: 2013-05-06 09:46:48 UTC
It's all in the summary. Reduce the toolbox to minimum width of two columns and try to move it.
I have no idea what you mean, it works fine for me, please attach a screenshot or link to a screencast.
Hi Michael, OK - to reproduce: Start gimp There is a toolbox and the main window on screen. The toolbox in my case is either 2 or 3 columns of icons wide. If the gimp logo is missing from the left end of the header, then it cannot be dragged to a new position on the desktop. As in: http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/linux/barjac/video/gimp1.png If the width of the toolbox dialog is dragged out until the gimp logo appears on the left end of the toolbox header bar, then it can be dragged around the desktop. As in: http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/linux/barjac/video/gimp2.png If I close the toolbox and re-create one with CRTL/b then it always appears like this at two columns and is immovable: http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/linux/barjac/video/gimp3.png I have seen this same issue for some time over different versions, see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5010 Barry
What do you mean "immovable"? Can't you just take it by the window title and drag it around?
(In reply to comment #3) > What do you mean "immovable"? Can't you just take it by the window > title and drag it around? No, not if the logo is missing from the left end of the header bar (window title) as I explained. As it is in the first and last images it won't move. By dragging out one side of the box until the logo re-appears in the header THEN it can be dragged around. It's annoying as this is the default state (image3) for a new toolbox made with CTRL/b.
Ah I see, this is an issue with your window manager, please file a bug report there. It can't be that you can't move a window just becaus the title is too narrow.
OK that I accept, and to check I ran it in Gnome and indeed the box can be dragged around at any width. However if the toolbox is closed using the X while it is a sensible shape (maybe 4 icon columns wide) and then a new one opened either from the menu or using CTRL/b, the new toolbox is only one column wide and drops off the screen at the bottom. It seems that maybe the toolbox width is not being saved on close, or maybe even set to zero, so that a minimum width is always set when it is re-opened. If this were not the case then the issue with kwin would not in fact be a problem, however I will still report it to kde.
Yes indeed, but the problem about a new toolbox being created too narrow is tracked in bug 686929. Thanks for coming back to this issue, and feel free to report any further issues you find!