Terminal window overlapping under Metacity/Compiz

[chastell]

Binary package hint: clusterssh

Both in Metacity and Metacity+Compiz cases ClusterSSH (from clusterssh 3.21-2) does not properly place the terminal windows (see attachment) – the windows seem to overlap by the sum of their window borders and title bars.

When starting ClusterSSH, It looks like the window manager gets to lay the windows initially, but then ClusterSSH re-positions the windows – for a split-second the terminals are all fully visible, and then they get repositioned to overlap.

[Tony Mancill (tmancill)]

This is similar to how it behaves under XFCE4. You can try adjusting the values of terminal_reserve_right and terminal_reserve_left in your .csshrc file to see if that helps. I use the value 5 for each and it seems to help. You might need to adjust terminal_reserve_top as well.

[chastell (chastell)]

Thanks a lot, but trying various settings (from 0 to 50) for all of the terminal_reserve_* settings doesn’t seem to alter anything.

[chastell (chastell)]

It seems putting
terminal_reserve_bottom = 32
into my ~/.csshrc on Intrepid’s CluserSSH 3.22 / X.org 7.4 / Metacity 2.24 combo is now indeed a workaround (but still does not help with composite enabled).

[Bingo Tailspin (bingotailspin)]

The workaround does it for me, Ubuntu 10.04 with Desktop Effects & nvidia driver.

terminal_reserve_bottom=42

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.