Reattaching Panes in Wayland

[Julian Popp]

Hi Folks,

The issue with panes seems to be a Windows issue as well - but slightly different.

The default setup has Preview and Progress/Debug messages as a split in the lower third of the window (above toolbars). When you move one of them out of the dock into a separate pane and try to re-dock it, the only way is to have the panes as tabs in ONE region but never again a split view (two panes next to each other).

Bye,
Julian

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Hild <a.t.hild at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2024 14:23
To: lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Reattaching Panes in Wayland

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 19:25, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:51:19AM +0100, Eckhard Höffner wrote:
> > >I can easily detach them from the main UI, but I'm unable to put 
> > >them back in their original place.
> > >
> > >I running the following version in Wayland:
> > >
> > >LyX Version 2.3.7
> > >Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.8 on platform wayland Qt Version 
> > >(compile-time): 5.15.7
> > >
> > >Any idea what's going on? Any work around?
> > >
> > >Many thanks!
> > >Andy
> > I have the same problems -- it works sometimes, but i do not know, 
> > why it works and why not.
>
> Detaching/Attaching panes in Qt is pain, does not matter if you are at wayland or on Xorg.
> I tried to file bugs about this in Qt project, but they don't seem to care.

It's very likely to be an issue with Wayland, possibly related to my distro.

I'm on Devuan 5 and just logged out from Wayland (KDE) into Xorg
(Xfce) and found that (de)activating two of the three panes was not possible anymore. See the screenshots attached.

Both screenshots were taken from inside Xfce. Creating the difference i.e. un/ticked was done by logging back into KDE.

After I deleted .lyx in Xfce everything went back to normal and attaching panes worked as it was intended. I have used LyX for 20+ years plus and have never ever had any issues with the panes until I moved to Wayland.

So the current workaround, seems to be not to detach panes.

I'm also copying the console output onWayland below (again, sorry I had inadervatingly replied directly to people rather than to the list).

Many thanks!
Andy


qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate() This plugin supports grabbing the mouse only for popup windows
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