Package: tilda
Version: 1.5.4-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: eingousef+debb...@rhizogen.es.eu.org

Dear Maintainer,

Here is my use caseĀ :

I'm using tilda as a "terminal wallpaper", as described hereĀ : 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/terminal_as_a_transparent_wallpaper . 
Basically, tilda is launched automatically at my DE's startup, started visible, 
with a fullscreen configuration, visible on every desktop, with some degree of 
transparency, and set as a desktop window. I start a dock/taskbar program at 
DE's startup before launching tilda (basically I've configured openbox to start 
tint2, waint 3 seconds, and then start tilda), so tilda doesn't use the whole 
screen, only the part that is not occupied by the dock and those two don't 
overlap each other.

Everytime I plug a secondary monitor to the computer and do something like 
`xrandr --output DP-1 --auto`, the screen is refreshed and tilda tries to fill 
it, but tilda pops up 1 second or so before the dock, thus ignoring the space 
reserved for the dock. I have to go to tilda's preferences, in the Appearance 
tab, and click on the '-' and '+' buttons to bring it back to its original 
"fullscreen minus the dock space" size. Same thing when unplugging the 
secondary monitor and doing `xrandr --output DP-1 --off`.

If you don't have a secondary monitor you can simulate this behavior with 
something like `xrandr --output LVDS-1 --mode 1368x768 ; xrandr --output LVDS-1 
--auto` (change your monitor name and your non-default mode accordingly).

I suspect it would not be possible to make tilda somehow detect the dock before 
it's up when the screen refreshes, and that adding an option within tilda to 
delay the moment it appears on the screen would be a dirty hack. But I think it 
would be nice if you could somehow force the exact size of tilda on the screen 
by giving its width and height in pixels on the command line or within the 
configuration file. There are fields in the config wizard and the config file 
to give the width and height, but with my "terminal wallpaper" configuration, 
they are somehow ignored.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (980, 'stable-updates'), (980, 'stable'), (500, 
'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 
'oldstable'), (90, 'experimental'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: init
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tilda depends on:
ii  libc6                2.33-8
ii  libconfuse2          3.3-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0  2.42.8+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.72.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.24.34-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.50.7+ds-1
ii  libvte-2.91-0        0.68.0-1+b1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.7.5-1

tilda recommends no packages.

tilda suggests no packages.

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