thanks Ingo, due to i3's easy reloading and the fact that i could just run the ssh-add command in a terminal without restarting X, the bisect process was very easy and smooth.
it found the commit. see below d1262f2b6ae713266b5a1e8cab368333bb332033 is the first bad commit commit d1262f2b6ae713266b5a1e8cab368333bb332033 Author: Andrzej Pronobis <[email protected]> Date: Sun Feb 1 17:04:41 2015 -0800 Use WM_SIZE_HINTS whenever it's provided to set the geometry of floating windows. :040000 040000 e7c887b2b14e2b24830840133045fe0ba232c3e0 3dd6d2d2864ab7aaec50cb2bff93031170bd50e8 M src ~/w/e/i3 ❯❯❯ On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:19:02 -0500 Ingo Bürk <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, a bisect would be useful. You need to run make clean && make && > sudo make install (to actually install the new binary -- unless you > change your xinitrc to run the local file in your checkout instead). > > Restarting X isn't necessary, restarting i3 in-place would suffice. But > since you have wrapped askpass around the i3 session, you'll indeed > probably need to exit your X session and startx again. > > > Ingo > > On 11/03/2015 04:46 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > I can confirm the first problem is gone (the window has the correct size) > > with 4.10.4 > > However the ghosting problem still exists, though now it also has the > > correct size and a black background instead of grey like before. > > see http://i.imgur.com/2uF25R8.png > > > > still want me to do a bisect? for all versions i would just run make clean > > && make && restart x using the new i3 binary right? anything else needed? > > > > Dieter > > > > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:05:31 -0500 > > Ingo Bürk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Dieter, > >> > >> can you do the following? > >> > >> 1) Downgrade to i3 4.10.4 and see if it fixes the problem. If so, please > >> run a git bisect to figure out which commit broke it. If 4.10.4 has the > >> same problem, try downgrading askpass or report a bug there. > >> 2) Provide a complete i3 log file where you started it. See the > >> debugging docs on the i3 website for information. Also provide the > >> output of "xprop" and "xwininfo -all" when clicking on the opened > >> askpass window. > >> > >> > >> Ingo > >> > >> On 11/03/2015 03:32 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >>> hello everyone, > >>> long time no see! i've been a long time i3 user but only since a recent > >>> upgrade i've started having issues with > >>> ssh-askpass. > >>> > >>> > >>> to be specific, in my .xinitrc I have: > >>> > >>> i3 -d all >> ~/i3-out 2>> ~/i3-err & > >>> waitpid=$! > >>> ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_dieter-ws-a7n8x-arch < /dev/null > >>> (.. some more stuff) > >>> wait $waitpid > >>> > >>> i posted my i3 config to > >>> https://gist.github.com/Dieterbe/d5870b230369818d2d47 (it's pretty much > >>> default, with a few extra binds and a different bar) > >>> > >>> > >>> the ssh-add spawns the x11-ssh-askpass program and since recently i've > >>> been seeing these two problems: > >>> > >>> screenshots of both issues @ http://imgur.com/a/TbNn1 > >>> > >>> 1) the window is way too small. it used to be just the right size for the > >>> popup. > >>> > >>> 2) after entering the password and hitting enter, a "ghost" of the window > >>> stays stuck in all of my i3 workspaces. > >>> those workspaces that have windows in them will have the windows cover > >>> it, but otherwise if i go to say workspace number 5 while no windows are > >>> there, it'll show a ghost of the ask pass window. > >>> > >>> any idea what might be the cause? i'm using 4.11 > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> Dieter >
