bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

[Jean Louis]

I do not think that this is related to Window Manager, but it could
be. However, I do expect from Emacs to know which is the Emacs' X window
and to center the frame of `message-box' within the Emacs frame, and not
XTerm frame which did not even have mouse focus. 

Here is screen record:
https://gnu.support/files/tmp/2022-10-03/2022-10-03-09:18:37.ogv



In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
 version 1.17.6, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2022-10-02 built on
 protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: d4f56e96665f1d2d98ce645d32d587013e8b8116
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003
System Description: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
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  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
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Major mode: Lisp Interaction

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Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Memory information:
((conses 16 39191 5960)
 (symbols 48 5145 2)
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 (buffers 1000 11))

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Jean

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bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I do not think that this is related to Window Manager, but it could
> be. However, I do expect from Emacs to know which is the Emacs' X window
> and to center the frame of `message-box' within the Emacs frame, and not
> XTerm frame which did not even have mouse focus. 
>
> Here is screen record:
> https://gnu.support/files/tmp/2022-10-03/2022-10-03-09:18:37.ogv

Have you tried building with some other toolkit, such as Motif?
Also, what window manager is that?

bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

[Jean Louis]

* Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> [2022-10-03 15:35]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > I do not think that this is related to Window Manager, but it could
> > be. However, I do expect from Emacs to know which is the Emacs' X window
> > and to center the frame of `message-box' within the Emacs frame, and not
> > XTerm frame which did not even have mouse focus. 
> >
> > Here is screen record:
> > https://gnu.support/files/tmp/2022-10-03/2022-10-03-09:18:37.ogv
> 
> Have you tried building with some other toolkit, such as Motif?
> Also, what window manager is that?

I will not change to other toolkit.

I did try that, but I will not change to that toolkit because of
message-box appearing in other window.

This is IceWM.

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bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

[Stefan Kangas]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I will not change to other toolkit.
>
> I did try that, but I will not change to that toolkit because of
> message-box appearing in other window.

The request was not for you to change toolkit, but for you to *test*
with another toolkit, to see if the problem remains.

Would you be willing to carry out such a test and report back the
results (in particular, if the problem remains)?

bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

[Jean Louis]

* Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> [2022-10-06 01:36]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > I will not change to other toolkit.
> >
> > I did try that, but I will not change to that toolkit because of
> > message-box appearing in other window.
> 
> The request was not for you to change toolkit, but for you to *test*
> with another toolkit, to see if the problem remains.
> 
> Would you be willing to carry out such a test and report back the
> results (in particular, if the problem remains)?

Here is the video with 2 toolkits:

https://gnu.support/images/tmp/2022-10-06/2022-10-06-10:54:20.ogv

It takes place when I press ALT-SHIFT-F2 to tile windows.

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bug#58268: 29.0.50; message-box appearing in center of other X window

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> [2022-10-06 01:36]:
>> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>> 
>> > I will not change to other toolkit.
>> >
>> > I did try that, but I will not change to that toolkit because of
>> > message-box appearing in other window.
>> 
>> The request was not for you to change toolkit, but for you to *test*
>> with another toolkit, to see if the problem remains.
>> 
>> Would you be willing to carry out such a test and report back the
>> results (in particular, if the problem remains)?
>
> Here is the video with 2 toolkits:
>
> https://gnu.support/images/tmp/2022-10-06/2022-10-06-10:54:20.ogv
>
> It takes place when I press ALT-SHIFT-F2 to tile windows.

Thanks.

In the case of GTK+, the toolkit itself sets the appropriate hints and
waits for the window manager to position the popup correctly.  There is
nothing we can do about that.

Athena widgets (all kinds) on the other hand fail to set any hints at
all.  I will look into this.