document location moves to cursor location on save

[ITwrx]

geany-gtk3 1.29-1
geany-plugins-gtk3 1.29-2
geany-themes 1.24-1
arch linux

when manually saving a document, or when geany is set to autosave and does so, geany moves focus/document scroll location to last/current cursor location instead of maintaining current scroll location.

This means that when you are working on a long document and have scrolled up to examine something 300 lines up from last cursor location, geany will autosave and move document scroll location down 300 lines making it difficult to even know where you are sometimes. It can also make you forget what you were trying to do as the code in view may be the reminder. It took me a minute to even figure out what geany was doing when this kept happening.

It would be nice if geany would either leave focus alone when saving or remember where i was in a document instead of forcibly moving me to the cursor location. :)

thanks

[codebrainz]

Geany doesn't autosave, and it keeps the scroll position when saving, it sounds likely that this is a bug with a plugin you are using, possibly the one doing the auto-saving. You can test by launching Geany with geany -p to disable any plugins, and then try it again.

[ITwrx]

i see that it is a plugin that is responsible for the autosave but i disabled autosave, then started geany with plugins disabled as you described and it still exhibits the same behavior. when you save, it repositions to the cursor location.

[elextr]

Doesn't move the scroll position here when using any of menu, keybinding or toolbar to initiate the save. Need exact steps to reproduce

[ITwrx]

are you using the same version of geany as i am? btw, i'm using gnome DE (gnome-shell 3.24.3-1).

also, i just noticed this:
(geany:7960): Gdk-CRITICAL **: xdg_popup_configure: assertion 'impl->transient_for' failed Gdk-Message: Window 0xdd39340 is a temporary window without parent, application will not be able to position it on screen. Gdk-Message: Window 0xdd39340 is a temporary window without parent, application will not be able to position it on screen.

i make a change in a php file, scroll up enough to where the cursor is not in current view in scroll position. save file using the toolbar and geany scrolls to where the cursor is back in view, losing my previously chosen scroll position.

[elextr]

Tested with 1.31 on Mint Cinnamon GTK 3.18.9, GLib 2.48.2.

What versions of Glib and GTK are you using (menu->help->debug messages)?

I don't see the critical messages, don't know if thats the cause of the scroll but since Arch is probably bleeding edge of GTK it may be due to bugs in that.

[ITwrx]

gtk3 3.22.18-2
glib2 2.52.3-1

geany debug reports:
18:26:02: Gdk CRITICAL : xdg_popup_configure: assertion 'impl->transient_for' failed 18:26:09: Gdk CRITICAL : xdg_popup_configure: assertion 'impl->transient_for' failed

[elextr]

Those messages are GTK internal messages (from Gdk that underlys GTK). I am not sure how it would affect the save scrolling, can you check if they have occurred prior to starting the offending save or if they occur during the save.

[ITwrx]

i just saved twice without those Gdk/GTK errors appearing, so i guess that was irrelevent. i just upgraded to geany-gtk3 1.31.1 and started with "geany -p" but the behavior persists.

I also notice that it always moves the scroll position to where the cursor is the bottom line of the new scroll position/view. This behavior is also completely consistent.

[elextr]

Can't reproduce it here, may be some setting you have different, can you post a gist of your user config? (do check for personal info first :)

[codebrainz]

@ITwrx what window manager are you using? Also you're using X not Wayland, right?

[ITwrx]

i'm using gnome DE (gnome-shell 3.24.3-1) with wayland

[ITwrx]

@elextr i don't know what you're asking for with "can you post a gist of your user config".

[codebrainz]

@ITwrx it's probably an incompatibility with Wayland, I don't think many (any) body is using that. Are you able to startx and try and reproduce in X11? Those warning message's you're getting are related to the window/desktop managerwindow manager/server.

@elextr i don't know what you're asking for with "can you post a gist of your user config".

He means to pastebin the file ~/.config/geany/geany.conf. It contains filenames, which may include your username or such (ex. recent file /home/you/topsecret/hitlist.txt).

[elextr]

@codebrainz whilst it indeed may be an incompatibility with wayland, the messages do not occur at the time the screen scrolls, so they probably are not related.

The behaviour looks suspiciously like something calls the scintilla "scroll cursor visible" call so I want to see what settings @ITwrx has that relate to the changes Geany makes at save time, maybe some combination causes a scroll, but there are too many to just ramdomly try them all.

@ITwrx yes @codebrainz described what I am after correctly. As well as the filenames the file may contain personal details in the template data (depending on what you have set) so I thought it worthwhile to warn you. Just copy the file and delete lines you don't want us to see before you post it.

[ITwrx]

@codebrainz wayland is the default in arch with gnome/gdm. so, IOW, everybody! :) i've got some things running in the terminal from remote machines so it may be a little while before i can bring myself to kill them long enough to try X.

@elextr pls see https://pastebin.com/7iF1EbWi

[elextr]

@ITwrx Wayland is the default for Arch, but its still Arch, so IOW, nobody. 😉 The Geany devs and most of the contributors use stable distros.

The only settings that are different on your system make no difference here, so I guess its back to @codebrainz theory that its something weird Wayland does or some change in the bleeding edge version of GTK behaviour. No rush, let us know when you get a chance to try X.

[evgeni]

Fedora 26 here, running Wayland, and I can't reproduce the issue.

• Geany 1.31
• GTK 3.22.19
• GLib 2.52.3

Opening a long file, doing some changes here and there. Pressing ^s. Neither my cursor nor the scrolling moves anywhere.

[sardemff7]

Could you both run WAYLAND_DEBUG=client geany and pastebin the output please? Make it as quick as possible because it’ll be quite verbose. And shut Geany down right after you save.

[sardemff7]

Oh, and please try to reproduce with Weston (at least 1.12).

[evgeni]

For me it was WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 that triggered the behavior you wanted.

geany.txt

[ITwrx]

i can't replicate this issue on my laptop which is a largely identical setup with either geany or geany-gtk3. these packages are the same on either laptop or desktop.

glib2 2.52.3-1
gnome-shell 3.24.3-1
gtk2 2.24.31-1
gtk3 3.22.19-2
wayland 1.14.0-1
wayland-protocols 1.10-1

On desktop both geany and geany-gtk3 exhibit the reported behavior. pls see geany-wayland-debug from desktop machine: https://pastebin.com/70p3UmWw
thanks

[sardemff7]

So it seems to be a bug if 3.22.18 that was fixed in 3.22.19. From their git log, I see nothing obviously obvious though.