Becomes out of sync/unreactive when Thunderbird was opened by notification

[haarp]

OS: Gentoo Linux
Linux Desktop Manager: Xfce (xfce4-notifyd-0.9.1, xfwm4-4.18.0)
Birdtray version: 1.11.4
Thunderbird version: 102.15.1
Birdtray origin: Ebuild
Qt version: NA

Description
When Thunderbird generates a new mail notifcation, it includes an "Activate" button. If the button is pressed, the Thunderbird is raised. In this state, Birdtray does not hide Thunderbird again when clicking on the tray icon. TB needs to be minimized manually first.

Expected behavior
Birdtray should always be able to control the TB window

To Reproduce

1. Enable new mail notifications
2. Press "Activate" in notification once new mail arrives
3. Try to hide TB again by clicking on the tray icon

Thanks a lot!

[BeatLink]

Has there been any updates on this?

[gyunaev]

No update since I don't use XFCE. Anyone else using it is invited to troubleshoot what happens in WindowTools_X11::hide() and why it doesn't hide again.

[adatum]

Same issue and workaround with Birdtray 1.11.4 on Fedora 39 and MATE 1.26.2.

[jboillot]

Hello, I had the same issue with Birdtray 1.11.4 on Ubuntu 22.04 and GNOME 42.9.

After some testing, it appears that opening thunderbird via a new message notification does not trigger WindowTools_X11::show, so mHiddenStateCounter is not reset to 0.
It implies that the condition of this if statement is false

birdtray/src/windowtools_x11.cpp

Line 508 in 62e17bc

if ( checkWindowState( QX11Info::display(), mWinId, "_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN" ) && mHiddenStateCounter == 0 )

According to the few tests I did on my machine, the first term of the disjunction is sufficient and removing the mHiddenStateCounter == 0 test corrects the issue because, once in the tray, the first term becomes false.

However, I don't know if in the general case the second term can be ignored.

[haarp]

@jboillot: Unfortunately can't confirm. I compiled Birdtray without the mHiddenStateCounter check and still couldn't get it to minimize to tray after activating via notification.

[tehw0lf]

@jboillot can confirm, this solves the issue for me (Arch,Xfce 4.18.0,xfce4-notifyd-0.9.4, Birdtray 1.11.4 (self-compiled), TB 115.9.0)

I've opened a PR