Bug 648722

Summary:	media-video/vlc-3.0.0-r2: timestamp popup registers as a window
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Raymond Jennings <shentino>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	luke, lxde+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Raymond Jennings 2018-02-24 18:48:47 UTC

When I hover the pointer over the progress bar, with the little teensy popup indicating the timestamp...out of nowhere the window manager (lxde)'s task bar shows it as a new window!

Like for some reason LXDE thinks it's a full fledged popup dialog.  This is a minor regression, as it didn't used to do this in the past.  only thing I remmeber chanigng was VLC's version.

the title of the "window" in question is just "vlc"

Comment 1 Raymond Jennings 2018-02-24 19:02:02 UTC

Created attachment 520944 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2018-03-18 20:12:09 UTC

As you've had a similar issue before please try under a different desktop environment.

Comment 3 Raymond Jennings 2018-04-27 19:57:38 UTC

I had the same sort of issue with a popup menu in the windows steam while running under wine.

Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2018-04-29 11:52:28 UTC

Adding lxde as I think there is nothing to do for vlc in this case.

Comment 5 Eric Timmons 2018-05-06 18:56:02 UTC

I run stumpwm and have this same issue with >=media-video/vlc-3.0.0. Because stumpwm is a tiling window manager, once the popup registers as a new window it ends up expanding to fill the whole frame vlc is running in. This makes vlc 3+ pretty much unusable on my system if I ever want to seek during playback.

Comment 6 Eric Timmons 2018-10-30 16:18:00 UTC

Fixed for me in 3.0.4. Did not try earlier versions.