Re: [Sawfish] issue with html5 datalist element rendering RHEL7 x86_64

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <nano@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, merged. If you want a different name than "womble" listed, let 
me know.


Maybe it's time to drop 1.13.0 before christmas?

On 19.12.21 22:14, womble wrote:
> I know this is a really old thread, however, recently I hit same problem,
> and found a solution which works for me.
>
> Sawfish does not set the _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS property, which gives the 
> offset
> of the client window to its top-level frame (the one build by sawfish).
>
> Some clients like firefox, use this information to position their own
> temporary X windows, eg. the username/password dropdowns.
>
> If you encounter the mentioned behaviour, try to use a different 
> frame-type
> for the window in question: if I set the frame type of firefox to 'none',
> then there is not offset, and the dropdowns are positioned correctly. 
> If I
> use a frame-style with a big titlebar, the offset gets worse.
>
> The attached patched sets the _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS property and fixed
> the problem for me.
>
> Although old, sawfish is still my favourite wm!
>
>
> On 29/02/2020 23:21, Trevor Cordes wrote:
> > On 2020-02-21 Robert 'Bobby' Zenz wrote:
> > > Curious...I'm out of ideas on that one in that case.
> > I've had a similar bug for literally years in my setup, all through
> > different versions of Fedora.  I always thought it was firefox's
> > fault... I never thought to blame sawfish.  But that would explain why
> > my bz's went unanswered and un-me-too'd.
> >
> > Anyhow, I can reproduce this bug on my fairly modern setup:
> > My box is currently:
> >
> > Fedora 30
> > Firefox 73.0
> > sawfish-1.12.90
> > gtk3-3.24.11
> >
> > The "datalist element" test has the options pop up halfway over the
> > text field vertically.

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