Problem with quodlibet under GNOME3
W. Martin Borgert
I wrote this email to the GNOME mailing list and it has been
suggested to contact the quodlibet developers because of
possible incompatiblities with GNOME3:
"""
I have a major problem with using my favourite music player,
quodlibet, under the GNOME3 window manager. When I open the
properties of an audio file (Edit Tags = Alt+Return), and than
"Add" a tag, the dialogue(?) to enter e.g. "composer" and
"J. S. Bach" hides the underlying tags window. When I try to
move the dialogue out of the way, the underlying window moves
with the dialogue! This makes the tag editing more or less
unusable, because I have to see the current tags, when adding a
new one. Note, that this "add" thingy does not have a title bar.
Any ideas what's going on here and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance!
Btw: Furthermore, the properties window doesn't have a close
button in it's title bar. Alt+F4 closes the window, however.
"""
Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance!
Iñigo Serna
On 14 June 2011 23:52, W. Martin Borgert <deb...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote this email to the GNOME mailing list and it has been
> suggested to contact the quodlibet developers because of
> possible incompatiblities with GNOME3:
>
> """
> I have a major problem with using my favourite music player,
> quodlibet, under the GNOME3 window manager. When I open the
> properties of an audio file (Edit Tags = Alt+Return), and than
> "Add" a tag, the dialogue(?) to enter e.g. "composer" and
> "J. S. Bach" hides the underlying tags window. When I try to
> move the dialogue out of the way, the underlying window moves
> with the dialogue! This makes the tag editing more or less
> unusable, because I have to see the current tags, when adding a
> new one. Note, that this "add" thingy does not have a title bar.
>
> Any ideas what's going on here and how to solve it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
I suppose this is because the add-tag window is created as modal, and
mutter (GNOME 3 windows manager) group windows.
So no easy way to solve it except modifying mutter or quodlibet code.
An ugly but working solution is to open properties window twice, move
one and add tag in the second one.
> Btw: Furthermore, the properties window doesn't have a close
> button in it's title bar. Alt+F4 closes the window, however.
You can also press ESC key to close any dialog.
Hope it helps,
Iñigo
W. Martin Borgert
> I suppose this is because the add-tag window is created as modal, and
> mutter (GNOME 3 windows manager) group windows.
> So no easy way to solve it except modifying mutter or quodlibet code.
On the GNOME mailing list I've been told, that this is fixed in
GNOME 3.1, I'm still running 3.0. I can't check this right now,
but maybe the problem is already solved.
> An ugly but working solution is to open properties window twice, move
> one and add tag in the second one.
This works indeed :~) Ugly, but better than nothing.
> You can also press ESC key to close any dialog.
Yes, confirmed. Many thanks!
W. Martin Borgert
> On 2011-06-15 18:31, Iñigo Serna wrote:
> > I suppose this is because the add-tag window is created as modal, and
> > mutter (GNOME 3 windows manager) group windows.
> > So no easy way to solve it except modifying mutter or quodlibet code.
>
> On the GNOME mailing list I've been told, that this is fixed in
> GNOME 3.1, I'm still running 3.0. I can't check this right now,
> but maybe the problem is already solved.
I have installed now the current GNOME3 from Debian testing
(with gnome-shell from unstable) and the problem is solved. Just
for the record :~)