Evince presentations start in a window if evince is fullscreen and compiz is enabled

[Josh Headapohl]

Running Ubuntu 7.10:

The problem may be with Compiz, because it does not seem to occur when Desktop Effects are disabled. The problem I am having is in Evince, though.

When viewing a document in Evince, go into fullscreen mode, then start a presentation (using the keyboard shortcut or the Start Presentation button). The presentation will appear in a window, when it should be fullscreen. The presentation will be fullscreen if Evince is not already in fullscreen mode.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 28 19:09:09 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: evince file:///tmp/LinkedLists.pdf
ProcCwd: /usr/share/cgmail
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux indie 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in evince and compiz.

BUT, i need to confirm which version of compiz do you have, so please put the output from this command here.

sudo dpkg -l | grep compiz

[Josh Headapohl (joshhead)]

Thanks for the information, and here's the output:

$ sudo dpkg -l | grep compiz
ii compiz 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager
ii compiz-core 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager
ii compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.5.2+git20070928-0ubuntu1 Collection of extra plugins from OpenComposi
ii compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.5.2+git20070928-0ubuntu2 Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing f
ii compiz-gnome 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - GNOM
ii compiz-plugins 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plug
ii compizconfig-settings-manager 0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu1 Compiz configuration settings manager
ii libcompizconfig-backend-gconf 0.5.2+git20071010-0ubuntu1 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi
ii libcompizconfig0 0.5.2+git20070919-0ubuntu3 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi
ii python-compizconfig 0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu1 Compiz configuration system bindings

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

hi i'm having trouble trying to reproduce your problem, can you send some png pics with the expected behaviour and with the bad behaviour?

thanks.

[Josh Headapohl (joshhead)]

Sure. First here's a document, open in evince.

[Josh Headapohl (joshhead)]

If I go to presentation mode (hit F5, or select it from the menu), I get a full-screen display.

[Josh Headapohl (joshhead)]

However, it works differently if Evince is in full-screen mode already.

[Josh Headapohl (joshhead)]

I click Start Presentation or hit the shortcut key and end up with the presentation in a window.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

ok, understood.

This happens ONLY with compiz enabled right??

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

couldn't find anything about this in upstream...

i need confirmations from other people aroud here

thks

[Josh Headapohl (joshhead)]

Right, just with Compiz. I have only tried with Compiz and Metacity, but with Metacity the presentation always displays full-screen.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

this bug is confirmed, thanks for your valuable help

[jmspeex (jean-marc-valin)]

I'm having similar problems with evince when I enable compiz. Basically, evince will open with the wrong geometry (slightly higher than the screen) and more than half its window would be outside the screen (top-left corner almost at the centre of the screen). But evince is not the only application that screws up. Lyx opens all its dialogs so far in the top-left corner of the screen that I can't see the title bar. Same thing for openoffice.org which not only does that but also has completely wrong geometry for the dialog in the first place (a simple "save before quitting" dialog takes half the screen). None of those problems happen with compiz disabled, which brings two possibilities: 1) compiz is horribly broken when it comes to window placement/geometry or 2) compiz exposes the fact that most X applications are horribly broken when it comes to placement/geometry. In any case, it's not pretty.

[jmspeex (jean-marc-valin)]

Just a minor correction: the openoffice.org "do you want to save your changes?" dialog is actually created as full-screen, which is really annoying to say the least. I've also found the behaviour to be intermittent.

[Jon Povey (jon-povey)]

fwiw I have the same behaviour here in vanilla ubuntu 7.10 desktop, with another note: if you go into proper fullscreen presentation mode by hitting f5, then press f11 you end up back in windowed mode, but with the buttons at the top of the window to start presentation or leave fullscreen. If you then press f11 again, you stay in windowed mode, the buttons disappear and you get your menu bar back.

I have unix experience but am a gnome/ubuntu newbie, let me know if I can provide any more useful info. I am running dual-head with the nvidia driver if that makes a difference.

[Danny Baumann (dannybaumann)]

This is an Evince problem.
Upstream bug report including explanation: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524112
Upstream fix: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evince?view=revision&revision=2987

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is in intrepid now