JEDIT causes an extra icon to be display in the left upper corner (line 2) which covers up "close" icon

[Bill Turner, wb4alm]

The JEDIT program runs extremely well, but it does cause an icon to be displayed in the upper left corner of the screen, just under the task bar. This icon is created and "fixed positioned" at that location anytime that JEDIT is running, regardless of where the actual jedit program window is positioned. (I, have a dual monitor setup, and it always is positioned at the point on screen 1, even if the app was started or moved to screen 2.)

This extra icon covers up the close icon of what ever application is really positioned at the
top left of screen 1.

The icon does nothing, except prevent you from clicking on the "close icon" that is just below it. PLEASE NOTE this icon is NOT positioned over JEDIT's close icon, unless JEDIT's window just happens to be position at the top left.

It is possible to move the covered up application's window just down, or just to the right so the covered-up close icon is now visible. You can now close that app...

It has occurred to be that the JEDIT designer who added this "feature" meant to make it harder to close JEDIT in error, and that they only had a"small screen"...

If this is what was desired, then the icon should have been position over the top left corner of JEDIT's window, rather than the Monitors screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: jedit 5.3.0+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 21 08:06:17 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-11 (864 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: jedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bill Turner, wb4alm (wb4alm)]

Is there anybody available to look at this?

I am not a JAVA programmer, or I would look myself.

This is really causing me productivity issues, as I cannot close applications without first moving opens around.

environment is:

jedit 5.3.0+dfsg-1
default-jre 2:1.8-56ubuntu2
Gnome 3.20
UBUNTU 16.04.1

Thanks!

[Bill Turner, wb4alm (wb4alm)]

fix typo:
...as I cannot close applications without first moving open windows around.

sorry.

/s/ Bill

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I think it might be rather related to Ubuntu's patches (not necessarily to jEdit but to the window management).

I've stopped using Ubuntu a while ago (using Arch Linux now), and jEdit for even longer (using Vim now).

I've just seen this bug report, because I was subscribed to the package as a previous uploader, but won't look into this issue.

You could try installing the upstream jEdit package - maybe it has been fixed by now and/or it works around some Ubuntu patches (sorry, I have not checked if there are any).

[Bill Turner, wb4alm (wb4alm)]

Daniel, thank you for the comments. I'll see what I can discover. When I opened this bug, I also wondered if a "Ubuntu Patch" might be at fault. I switched to JEDIT when UBUNTU broke GEDIT --- I needed an editor that would operate "the same" on win-10 and on LINUX.

(and yes, I prefer Linux.)

[Bill Turner, wb4alm (wb4alm)]

Since this is never going to be looked at, and both the application and the operating system has undergone significant upgrades and changes in the past 6 years - please close this report.