Strange behavior, then showing (static?) splash screens

[ghost]

Then I am running program, for example, audacity, as awesome doesn't support floating layer, there is black rectangle instead of audacity's logo. Is the any option to disable this behavior at all, as I don't want to see this black thing?

[psychon]

Uhm... sorry, what? I do not understand.

[psychon]

I just installed Audacity, started it, and made its window floating. The result is shown above. I do not see any black rectangle and I do see audacity's logo. What am I missing?

[ghost]

@psychon , that's it!

[psychon]

What's your awesome version? Does anything else work? ow come there is no bar at the side of your screen that shows e.g. the currently open windows?

[ghost]

awesome v4.2 (Human after all)
• Compiled against Lua 5.3.4 (running with Lua 5.3)
• D-Bus support: ✔
• execinfo support: ✔
• xcb-randr version: 1.5
• LGI version: 0.9.2
Sorry, this is not a screenshot, but yes,ewerything else seems working. This is the video of running audacity: https://youtu.be/3q81a3Dt7fE

[ghost]

P.S actually, there is the bar with menu and opened windows exists

[ghost]

If I run audacity by the xterm, there will be a lot "ClientToScreen cannot work when toplevel window is not shown" messages

[initrider]

@zervankoru same thing, dude

[leadrig]

@zervankoru I have this problem too.

[alfunx]

@psychon I think they just want to hide that splash screen (which appears as black rectangle for them):

In case you guys indeed just want to hide the window, xprop on it says:

_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 5
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
                window state: Normal
                icon window: 0x0
_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS(CARDINAL) = 4, 4, 24, 4
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
                Client accepts input or input focus: True
                Initial state is Normal State.
                window id # of group leader: 0x3200001
_GTK_THEME_VARIANT(UTF8_STRING) = 
_MOTIF_WM_HINTS(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS) = 0x3, 0x4, 0x2, 0x0, 0x0
XdndAware(ATOM) = BITMAP
_NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 253, 100
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH
_NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST_COUNTER(CARDINAL) = 52429051, 52429052
_NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x32000fa
WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x3200001
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 12359
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "C"
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "xps13"
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                program specified location: 0, 0
                program specified minimum size: 253 by 100
                program specified maximum size: 253 by 100
                program specified base size: 0 by 0
                window gravity: NorthWest
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW, WM_TAKE_FOCUS, _NET_WM_PING, _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "audacity", "Audacity"
WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "Audacity is starting up..."
_NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Audacity is starting up..."
WM_NAME(STRING) = "Audacity is starting up..."
_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Audacity is starting up..."

And starting Audacity from the terminal spams (among some other things):

11:41:04: Debug: ScreenToClient cannot work when toplevel window is not shown
11:41:04: Debug: ClientToScreen cannot work when toplevel window is not shown

[ghost]

@alfunx I've tried to run audacity under XFCE. Results:

11:41:04: Debug: ScreenToClient cannot work when toplevel window is not shown
11:41:04: Debug: ClientToScreen cannot work when toplevel window is not shown

I have same messages in terminal, but the splash screen is visible, unlike in awesome

[Perlovka]

Add this to ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg

[GUI]
ShowSplashScreen=0

[initrider]

@Perlovka no, this option disables Welcome screen, not splash screen.

[Perlovka]

@initrider but with this option audacity starts without problem for me (audacity-2.2.2)

[initrider]

@Perlovka same version of audacity, but it sltill opens with black rectangle

[ghost]

Well, that's strange:

1. killall xfwm4 && awesome - do it until xfce4 will break
2. run awesome -r (i don't know, why it doesn't work in xfce4 session)
3. audacity now works as expected. But vanilla awesome still do not work.

[ghost]

P.S. running audacity from whisker menu - ok
running audacity from terminal - black rectangle
Reinstalling audacity allows to run audacity from terminal for one time, but then - black rectangle

[ghost]

P.P.S audacity -v sometimes help to avoid black rectangle if running from terminal

[ghost]

Well, LMMS have the same problem, image is not shown on splash screen. Krita works perfectly.

[ghost]

So, here is my tests:

• GIMP - updating it's splash screen, while booting
• Krita - same

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• Audacity - just show static image while booting
• LMMS - same

But after starting krita or gimp, spash screen become grey for 1-2 sec, until app update content of spash screen (gimp and krita both show progress of loading)

Audacity and LMMS just shows static image with their logos. LMMS shows grey rectangle (as gimp and krita in first seconds), Audacity shows black rectangle, but I think the prome have same roots.

[ghost]

P.S. I have some message like this a_glib_poll:432: Last main loop iteration took 0.184401 seconds! Increasing limit for this warning to that value., then audacity runs with black rectangle

[actionless]

@zervankoru is freezing behavior changes with awesome --no-argb and without?

[ghost]

@actionless no

[ghost]

Well, Awesome 3.5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 doen't show black rectangle on audacity splash screen in 90%. It looks like race condition.

[ghost]

Well, I see this is known issue.

[ghost]

@eliseyim follow the bug report on wxwidgets too. Maybe them can help us. https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/18216

[ghost]

LMMS/lmms#4581 - lmms issue
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=101306 - audacity