Review Request 127631: [ksmserver] We must be sure that kwin process is ended
Martin Gräßlin
mgraesslin at kde.org
Mon Apr 11 09:01:45 UTC 2016
> On April 11, 2016, 7:45 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > otherwise kwindowsystem::self() is nullptr
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> > how can KWindowSystem::self() be null? And why should that have anything to do with KWin? KWindowSystem does not depend on a window manager running.
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> Thomas Lübking wrote:
> The entire thing sounds as if the problem would be that the session restorage in kwin overrides the placement for restored windows (with the restored position)
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> That's however not a bug (at least it's intended) and I've no idea why that's relevant to the weird geometry handling of SNI items (which looks *faaaar* too complex - the position of remapped windows is usually maintained by QWidget ...)
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> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
> I saw the code, it looks like KWindowSystem not depend on Kwin, but Kwin *must* be started *before* use of kwindowsystem. Thomas may right, because setGeometry even not work on sessions restored app.
> When session was finish if start apps with kmail --session session-id everything wors fine.
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> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
> Now, after Thomas comment, i even think only widget->show() must works because widget has internal frameGeometry and position.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > but Kwin must be started before use of kwindowsystem
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> no, really there is no reason for that. KWindowSystem doesn't depend on a window manager running.
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> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
> Then, correct KWin to kwindowsystem to start working. If there is no bug this will works on all cases -> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127216/ but it's not.
I don't know why you have problems, but it's impossible that KWindowSystem::self() returns a nullptr. You can check the code to verify. Something is really broken on your side, but I don't know what. Maybe missing plugins installed?
- Martin
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On April 10, 2016, 9:46 p.m., Anthony Fieroni wrote:
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> (Updated April 10, 2016, 9:46 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Plasma, David Edmundson, Martin Gräßlin, and Thomas Lübking.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> We must proceed with autoStart0 when kwin process is ended otherwise kwindowsystem::self() is nullptr. Every restored session app cannot use kwindowsystem. This depends of cpu speed, it can be faster enough to start wm before ksmserver restore apps and kwindowsystem will be usable.
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> Diffs
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> ksmserver/startup.cpp f118b55
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127631/diff/
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> Testing
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> It's needed to fix this bug -> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127216/
> I don't know how to proceed if kwin fails to start in every way, can we process - i think not?
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> Thanks,
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> Anthony Fieroni
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