Guake size is messed up

[Daniel Fett]

Binary package hint: guake

The size of the main window gets messed up: It always reverts to a full-screen size. Using unity here.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: guake 0.4.2-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 4 12:20:09 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: guake
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Lalatendu Mohanty (then4way)]

I confirmed this on 11.10

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Setting to Low importance per Lalatendu Mohanty on IRC.

[Lalatendu Mohanty (then4way)]

There are three behavior to be exact which I can reproduce

1. If Guake is in full screen -> press the restore from the top toolbar (between close, minimise, restore)-> Guake will go to a lesser size (X, Y both)-> if you toggle it twice (press F12 twice) -> it will go back to full screen

2. If you try to keep the X axis (horizontal length) less then maximum X value it will automatically go to the full X axis value

3. If the Y (height) is greater then 75% of max (approx) it will go for max X and Y value i.e full screen in next toggle

[Nikolaus Demmel (nikolaus)]

Btw I notice the same issue in Tilda (at least behaviour 3 for sure).

[Lalatendu Mohanty (then4way)]

I have tried a couple of code changes but its nor working for me as of now. I am still working on it

[Danny Goodall (danny-onebloke)]

I appear to be suffering from the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 under Unity 2d. Quitting Guake and re-loading seems to restore the correct window size and behaviour but makes using F11 - Full Screen, difficult to use.

[Markus Birth (mbirth)]

Bug still appears in 12.10 (guake 0.4.3-3). A workaround is to edit /usr/bin/guake and change line 821 to

  width = 97

(May vary depending on your screen width.)

[amit (gautamits)]

i was having problem when by mistake i slided the slider completely down to screen and unable to see the slider.
i played with code and got this one,this code sets the maximum height for guake

search for this line 686

 max_height = self.window.get_screen().get_height()
        percent = y / (max_height / 100)

change value to

 max_height = self.window.get_screen().get_height()
        percent = y / (max_height / 90)

using mint 17 XFCE guake version 0.4.4

[Bartłomiej Żogała (nusch)]

I've got crash to day and found something what may be related:

    def on_window_halign_value_changed(self, halign_button):
        """Changes the value of window_halignment in gconf
        """
        if halign_button.get_active():
            which_align = {
                'radiobutton_align_left': ALIGN_LEFT,
                'radiobutton_align_right': ALIGN_RIGHT,
                'radiobutton_align_center': ALIGN_CENTER
            }
            self.settings.general.set_int(
                'window-halignment', which_align[halign_button.get_name()]
            )
        self.prefDlg.get_widget("window_horizontal_displacement").set_sensitive(
            which_align[halign_button.get_name()] != ALIGN_CENTER
        )

The issue is with which_align which is assumed to be always present but won't be if first if will be false

[Bartłomiej Żogała (nusch)]

Is anybody still working on this? Shouln't we have seperate bugs reported for each exact problem ? I've reported one fresh here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/guake/+bug/1896340