What is this narrow useless window? about geeqie

[caclark]

The problem is somewhere in the renderer-tiles/osd code, but at the moment I do not see it.

The line main_window.h = in geeqierc.xml causes the problem when that value is too small. Set it to a larger value.

[caclark]

Is it a second Layout Window? Click on it to select it, and then press Control-W.

[Stalinist1]

Nothing happens

[Stalinist1]

If I select any image, press V (fullscreen window opens), then V again (fullscreen window closes), this strange windows closes. But when I restart Geeqie, this strange window shows again.

[caclark]

Could you please upload $HOME/.config/geeqie/geeqierc.xml.

If you wish, delete file and directory names, but it would be useful for me to see what sections are in this file.

[Stalinist1]

Here it is.
I added .txt extension to the file in order to upload.
geeqierc.xml.txt

[caclark]

On the animate = true line, delete the > angle bracket and restart Geeqie.

When this file is saved again, the angle bracket reappears, but the fault does not.

There is a problem somewhere in the file saving code.

I will look at that in a couple of days.

[Stalinist1]

Geeqie instance on my another PC doesn't have this strange window on startup but its geeqierc.xml has line animate = true >

This angle bracket is needed to close opened <layout> xml tag.

[caclark]

I now have another opinion. It may be the image Overlay Screen Display which is being displayed in the wrong place - if so, this is because you have changed the window layout (Edit/Configure This Window) to a non-default setting.

Reverting to the standard layout is a workaround in the meantime.

[Stalinist1]

[Stalinist1]

This bug is related to Image Overlay
If you press I multiple times to turn off image overlay (1. no image overlay, 2. image overlay, 3 image overlay + histogram, 4. no image overlay) then this window disappears after geeqie restart. But when you turn on image overlay this window appears again.

This is strange because I have image ovelay turned on always on other PC and I don't see this bug there.

[Stalinist1]

When I start geeqie I have 3 windows opened at the same time (look at panel)

About couple of seconds after a start one window closes itself, two windows remain -- geeqie and narrow window.

When I minimize geeqie...

[Stalinist1]

Any ideas how to fix it?

[caclark]

Are you using a v2.1 AppImage?
If so, please try the latest Continuous Build version.

[Stalinist1]

Are you using a v2.1 AppImage? If so, please try the latest Continuous Build version.

No. Version 2.1 from official Manjaro repo.

[Stalinist1]

What does it mean? Height of the main window?
Right now I am using 2K monitor (2560x1440). Height is 1440 px.

[caclark]

It is the height of the Geeqie main window.

[Stalinist1]

OK. I figured it out.
I get used to use Geeqie window maximized, but when I restore the window its initial size is very small (720x540).

From geeqierc.xml

        main_window.x = "0" 
        main_window.y = "0" 
        main_window.w = "720" 
        main_window.h = "540" 

I increased window size by dragging a mouse, then maximized it, and then closed. After restart Geeqie is fine -- no strange windows open along with main window.

Thanks for workaround!

You guys need to fix this bug!