Re: EOG Keeps Resizing Itself After Ubuntu 12.04 Upgrade

[Frank in Ubuntu <ubuntu ozzyfrank com>]

Hi. Yes, having resized an EOG window, I saw it bounce back (in height 
at least - it seems determined to be no less in height than from the top 
panel to the bottom). Using the arrow key definitely results in this, at 
least when you get to a larger image. I just then opened up an image 
that, panel to panel, is displaying at 96%; after resizing it to be 
about 2/3 the height, after about 5 seconds it jumped straight back to 
the size it was.

I agree it probably is an EOG vs Compiz issue, as upgrading to Ubuntu 
12.04 gave me back Compiz-Fusion desktop effects I lost when Gnome 2 
Classic became Gnome 3 Fallback (I saw Mutter being removed in the 
upgrade). However, this weirdness isn't global, as it only affects EOG.

OK, I just switched back to Metacity and there is no issue. My Compiz 
settings look to be as I left them in 11.04, and I don't have a great 
deal of the plugins enabled, but I'll see if I can isolate the culprit 
later (if I can, I'll report back). But since every other program I use 
has no issue with Compiz, I'd still look at this as an EOG bug. Cheers. 
Frank

On 08/05/12 06:13, Felix Riemann wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 02.05.2012, 18:24 +1000 schrieb Frank in Ubuntu:
> > Hi. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, and all went fine except for some
> > weird behaviour from EOG. Basically, when I resize its window it will
> > change shape and size when it gets to a larger image. Nothing in my
> > settings has changed - it's still set to Best Fit - so it has nothing to
> > do with the setting for viewing at their original size. When an image is
> > too large to be displayed, it will still have 65% or whatever in the
> > status bar, but the window size will extend from my top panel to the
> > bottom (I'm using Gnome 3 Classic) - before, if I had resized the window
> > to be, for example, 2/3 of the height, it would just stay exactly the
> > same, and just resize images accordingly.
> this sounds extremely odd. The size of each eog window is determined by
> the first displayed image's size or by taking a default value if the
> window's empty. Afterwards it doesn't change the window size of it own
> anymore.
>
> > Also, I actually watched the first image's window being resized without
> > me doing anything, and while that only happened a couple of times,
> > whenever I get to another picture with different size or aspect ratio,
> > it decides to resize itself yet again.
> You mean the window was resized while watching an image (without
> skipping ahead or back)?
>
> > I've had a look in the Compiz settings, since I had to reset a couple of
> > things after the upgrade, but I found nothing of use, and I can confirm
> > that this is only happening with EOG.
> Well, I can't see the problem with a stock GNOME 3 in fallback mode. But
> I remember that Compiz was able to trick the window size algorithm into
> choosing a wrong window size by providing wrong display sizes to eog.
> Can you try with Compiz disabled?
>
> Regards,
>
> Felix