No longer opens on active monitor (but on the monitor it shows up the first time) [Unity] about kupfer HOT 18 CLOSED

One more note: Kupfer v208 works on both monitors.

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At least in GNOME Shell, it still works properly with 2 monitors.

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Thanks for the report. The first question is if this started all the way back with v300?

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I think it worked initially, but I can't remember for sure. I'll try to investigate.

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Well, I just tried v300 it works the same as v308.1, so the bug is there from the beginning of v3, it seems. Hmm what's weird is that I think I would have noticed it before, because I've used Kupfer daily since v302 on a dual monitor setup. It might also be some Ubuntu update that did this. But I may be wrong.

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If the keybinding works on both monitors, then you at least don't need the multihead plugin (that was not ported to v30x). I really don't want to revive that hack.

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Explanation could be this simple: Gtk 3 has the same APIs existing, but they have changed behaviour.

https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/index.html#Gdk-3.0/classes/Screen.html#Gdk.Screen.get_monitor_at_point

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Delightfully needs Gtk 3.22 to use the new API..

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I can't reproduce, for me, the kupfer window shows on the monitor where the mouse pointer is. There are still some apps being launched on the wrong window, but those are separate bugs that need to be tracked down one by one. (Gtk 3.22, xfwm 4.12). I have a trigger that opens a terminal, it also follows the monitor with the pointer.

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Switching from enhancement to bug since there is existing monitor-placement code.

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So it turns out I wasn't crazy. I logged in to GNOME Shell today (Ubuntu 16.10) and Kupfer works properly with two monitors, showing up on the active monitor. I initially used Kupfer v3 in GNOME Shell, that's why I didn't notice this issue. So it looks like it's Unity-specific (I'm not sure if it happens in other DEs too, like Xfce, MATE, etc.).

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Thanks, the clarification is important.

The diversity of window managers and environments is why we need multiple contributors to Kupfer. Especially since Unity is not packaged in other distributions, at least not in Debian at the moment.

So this is my plea to anybody to contribute: Ask me on the irc channel (#kupfer on freenode) if you want to have help get started.

If you used gnome shell, that also means you did not experience bug #51 ? Just to know if kupfer is totally broken there or not.

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No, I didn't experience that bug in GNOME Shell 3.20.

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@hotice Please drop old python2 patches from ppa, except rst2html patch.

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I looked through the old debian package patches and they should all have been adressed one way or the other, for example by patches by @KarolBedkowski now integrated, or by fixes in kupfer 3xx. Keyring is still not addressed, no keyring plugins are ported. (Unsure if they should be.)

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The patches are dropped, I just didn't delete them from the debian folder. But they are not used, here's the "series" file which includes the patches that are applied, with only the rst2html patch enabled:

#uses_fragment.patch
#keyring-3.patch
#help.patch
#tracker-needle.patch
#locales.patch
#dbus.patch
#bookmarks-places.sqlite.patch
use-rst2html-instead-of-rst2html5-for-yakkety.patch

By the way, this bug was fixed in the latest Kupfer v313, thank you!

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Yes! Since I only tested Unity, I hope it didn't re-break gnome shell or other multi monitor setups. For this bug I used a virtualbox with two virtual monitors to run Unity in 16.10. I also saw that the preferences window doesn't always come to the front when opened from the app indicator. It looks like app indicators don't give us an event time, and then it can't be better than that. (So opening preferences is best done by just searching for Kupfer Preferences or using the shortcut which is Ctrl + ; by default).

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great! so we have progress, now with less bugs.

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