Panel text obscured on startup

[dizzib]

The panel text is obscured by subsequent widgets on startup:

Quick workaround is to enter Awesome Widget Settings then hit OK:

Also, for some reason the text becomes obscured again some time after I apply the workaround. The time can be anything from a few minutes to half an hour or so and it happens all by itself, even when I'm away from the computer. FWIW I'm on KDE 4.13.2.

When the text is obscured, a right-click to show the popup menu fails unless it's done at the extreme bottom of the panel.

[arcan1s]

yep there are some problems with painting interface since the latest version. I hope they will be fixed in the future releases. Sorry =)

But as for me, I have not seen to have problems with the painting after initialization. Is this effects similar to one in initialization? I can assume that it may be related to other widgets which grab all given free space.

[dizzib]

No problem at all :)

Yes the after-initialization effect is identical to the first-initialization problem.

Interestingly the after-init problem hasn't happened since I switched back to running off SSD a couple of hours ago. Earlier I was running a clone of my system off a usb stick and I suspect this may have affected the disk monitor widget and caused the after-init problem. Needs further investigation.

Update: I spoke too soon, yesterday it happened a couple of times when running off SSD.

[dizzib]

I'm sometimes able to make AW text disappear by clicking the panel cashew and moving the AW instance(s) around. Hopefully this might help you to reproduce the issue more easily.

Please let me know if you need any more info, but unfortunately for now this bug makes AW unworkable for me :(

[arcan1s]

I may create hot fix (workaround) to avoid this issue. It is not clear fix, but should work. Hope I will implement this today, but you will need to build plasmoid from git.

[dizzib]

Wow great! Let me know where to get it from when you're done and I'll give it a spin. I'm on Arch linux so hopefully I can simply hack the PKGBUILD.

[arcan1s]

okay, try to build from git with the following PKGBUILD

[dizzib]

That seems to be fixed now, great job!

Please forgive me for this but I find myself missing how the text used to sit with a transparent background overlaid above the other widgets since (1) it took up much less space and (2) looked really cool, so it's a pity this (accidental?) feature is no longer around.

To illustrate, here's my panel before this fix:

And after, where I've had to radically trim down the text:

Anyway this isn't a major issue just a nice to have, so closing as fixed.

btw the build didn't work until I grabbed the submodules manually but I've a feeling PKGBUILD-git could be doing this.

Thanks again!

[arcan1s]

Sorry about the submodules I forgot about them =) And I think that I can do the widget in foreground (hope it will be in one line patch)

[dizzib]

That would be very cool indeed but no rush! Let me know if you need me to test.

[arcan1s]

try now =)

[dizzib]

Hmm no difference, AW is still taking up space as in my last pic above even after moving it around. Is there something else I need to do ?

Submodules are pulling correctly now.

[arcan1s]

ok, I'll look at this again. But i want ask you what plasmoid is used to provide charts?

[dizzib]

From left to right in my last pic there's AW instance 1, Network monitor, HW temp, CPU monitor (4 cells), AW 2, Memory status, Hard disk i/o (2 cells).

[arcan1s]

are they default KDE charts?

[dizzib]

Yes, in KDE 4.13.2

[arcan1s]

i'm sorry, but I cannot reproduce it. It works normally for me (see the screenshot). I think that it is plasma-related issue. Did you try to add the AW after graphical monitors?

[dizzib]

It doesn't matter where I place AW it never overlays its neighbours plus I just tried rebuilding with latest and still no joy. Out of interest what KDE version are you on ?

TBH I can live with it as-is so please don't waste too much time on this!

[arcan1s]

latest (4.14.2)

[dizzib]

Also worth noting I'm on qt4 4.8.6-1

I'll try upgrading my KDE and qt but this can't happen immediately since I'm in the middle of evaluating some other software.

[dizzib]

Finally got round to upgrading to KDE 4.14.3 and qt4 4.8.6-4 but no joy I'm afraid. Even upgrading to AW 2.1.0 didn't make any difference.

[arcan1s]

will look on it later (after/with releasing for KF5)

[dizzib]

Thanks and please don't sweat it :)

I expect this to be a tough nut to crack if you cannot reproduce it so I've installed KDE/AW into an isolated virtualbox environment to help us test and diagnose it. Please let me know if you need any more info.