Deskbar window moves every time it's opened

[Frederik Elwert]

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

Every time the deskbar window is opened (e.g., via Alt-F3 or clicking the icon), the window is a bit more to the right and to the bottom of the screen than it was the last time.

I just crawled the source a bit and found that deskbar uses get_position() on the gtk.Window to the the coordinates, stores these values to gconf, and sets them with move() after re-opening the window. The PyGTK reference points out that this method will most likely fail to restore the original position due to window manager missbehaviour. Compiz, which I am using, also seems to suffer from this.
(see http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html#method-gtkwindow--get-position )

The reference suggests using true session management, e.g. via GnomeClient. I don't know if this would be a valid option for deskbar, but the hopping window is really not ideal.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.