Re: [gnome-flashback] Issues with gnome-flashback on Ubuntu 16.04

[Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg gmail com>]

On 04/12/2015 07:23 μμ, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:
> I can not resize csd windows too, but that is theme problem:
> .window-frame { margin: 0; }

Thanks, that did it, hopefully it'll be fixed until 16.04 final so that 
there's no need to do this per user:
~/.config/gtk-3.0$ cat gtk.css
.window-frame {
margin: 1px;
}


> >    6) gnome-flashback with metacity has a lot of tearing...
> Can you give some links for upstream change?

The best description that I saw about it was comment #2 in:
https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2383

There's also 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsdl1.2/+bug/1280665, but it 
only speaks about SDL, while this issue affects a lot of other apps as 
well, e.g. video playback inside our outside the browser.


> >     7) The panel applet for the keyboard layout doesn't switch...
> That might be ubuntu indicator-keyboard problem.
>
> Can you try this:
> - set org.gnome.gnome-flashback.input-sources to true
> - add notification-area applet to see input source icon from gnome-flashback
>
> Then it should work, but you will see two indicators. If adding
> notification-area applet is acceptable to you then you probably can
> disable indicator-keyboard autostarting in GNOME Flashback by copying
> /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-keyboard.desktop to ~/.config/autostart and
> adding extra line 'NotShowIn=GNOME-Flashback;'.


Thank you Alberts, you're great!
I've had to remove /usr/share/upstart/sessions/indicator-keyboard.conf 
for the last step to work.
I'd love to be able to do this for all users, or better yet, to have it 
as the default for gnome-flashback.

a) Dmitry, do we need to stick with the Ubuntu indicators?
 * The language indicator is semi-broken.
 * Pidgin, thunderbird etc indicators don't show up.
 * The "Add event" in the date/time indicator doesn't work.

Did I understand it correctly that if we switch to whatever 
gnome-flashback has by default, things will work fine again?


b) If the previous suggestion is not feasible, what would it take to 
properly replace indicator-keyboard with the "gnome-flashback keyboard 
applet"? Does it need to be rewritten so that is uses the Ubuntu API there?

Thank you,
Alkis