[wx-dev] Re: Re: recent wxGTK fatal window sizing bug

[Robert Roebling]

Paul Cornett:
> Paul Cornett wrote:
> > Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> > > PC> I can think of 4 (unappealing) ways it could be made to work.
> > > 
> > >  They're indeed all unappealing. But there is something I don't
> > > understand: don't all current WMs support _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS
> > > property (from
> > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html)? And, if
> > > they do, isn't it enough to simply use it as it's supposed to work
> > > for not yet mapped windows?
> > 
> > I tried using _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS some time ago and it didn't
> > help. But looking at it again, I think I may know what was going
> > wrong. I'll do some more experimenting.
> 
> OK, I found a way to use _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS, by deferring the
> window show until the _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS notification arrives. Checked
> in now.

I haven't tested the changes yet, but if they work, can they
be backported to 2.8?

  Robert