automatic layout gets wrong if started during desktop startup sequence

Bug #937808 reported by Timo Aaltonen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
terminator (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

I'm using a pre-saved layout for terminator and added it to start during unity startup (via the menu option on the top-right menu), but the layout is most of the time all wrong after logging in.

Running it manually gets it right every time, so there must be some sort of a race condition going on that makes it misbehave when it's starting while the session is not fully running yet. Terminator doesn't use gconf/dconf directly, but queries some stuff from the running session?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: terminator 0.96-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-16.25-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 21 16:03:47 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: terminator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-16 (5 days ago)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in terminator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote :

My guess is that we are started early and the window is not sized properly right away. Not sure yet how to deal with that.

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