[Kmymoney-devel] Re: OT - Strange Screen Behaviour

[allan]

On 19/10/10 11:51, Cristian Oneţ wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:17 PM, allan <aganderson at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>> For a while, I'd been experiencing system slow running occurring from
>> time to time, and after reading something from a Google search, I tried
>> switching window manager from kwin to metacity, and no longer got the
>> slow downs.
>>
>> However, after returning to working on the csv plugin, I noticed some
>> odd behaviour. Â When processing an investment test file, which had
>> several non-standard investment activity types, some of these were
>> handled correctly, but with the others, the plugin window shifted from
>> central to top-left corner. Â I couldn't see anywhere in the plugin where
>> I specified screen location, nor anything else to account for this.
>>
>> It didn't do that originally, so I switched back to kwin, and the plugin
>> now works as expected.
>>
>> Is it valid to use metacity with KDE4? Â It seems to be allowed. Â Anyone
>> seen anything similar? Â Need I be concerned, or is there anything I
>> should also have done?
> 
> If it works than it must be valid :) but you'll have to live with the
> small glitches as the ones described by you. It's a matter of choice.
> I've never tried to use metacity in KDE.
> 

I was thinking more of users on gnome systems.  But then, there may not
be any!

> Regards,
> Cristian

It's quite weird!  I've even tried specifying the swindow position with
a move().

The first two of a series of transactions display where I specified, but
then off they go to the top-left again.  There is a pattern to it, but I
can't see why.

I'm back on KWin and awaiting developments.  There were crashes withKWin
that others have experienced going back some way without a fix, as well
as the go slows.

If there's more trouble, I might try a different distro, or swapping the
video card out and using the embedded one.

Allan