Re: pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3
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Msg-id a38f5670ae579f6c80b5a068f90cea13@localhost
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In response to Re: pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3  (Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com>)
Responses Re: pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3  (Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:12:59 -0700, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com>
wrote:
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I'm on openSuse running the latest stable release of Gnome3 (Just
>> trying it out, so far the fact I can't minimize windows is perhaps
>> more than my old school brain can handle)..
>>
>> I've noticed in pgAdmin, basically no popup works.  If I right click
>> on the "Databases" branch and select "New Database", nothing happens.
>> If I right click on the "Tables" brand and select "New Table", nothing
>> happens..  I know for a fact this works when I logon with KDE..
>>
>> If anyone wants more info from my system, just lemme know what I can
>> do to get that for you..  Thanks!!
>
> Okay good news is that these menus do come up, bad news is the bug is
> even more obscure.  Here's my setup:
>
> I have two monitors.  Gnome3 allows you to create multiple desktops to
> organize your windows, however this only affects your primary monitor.
>  I actually kinda like this, since I have my web browser on my second
> monitor and I can "scroll through" apps on my primary monitor.
>
> In this case, I had pgAdmin on my second monitor and some random app,
> like Eclipse on the primary monitor.  I selected "Create Database" on
> pgAdmin and apparently nothing happened.  What it actually did it
> spawned the new dialog on my primary monitor BUT on another virtual
> desktop.  I finally noticed it when I flipped over to that one..
>

pgAdmin displays the dialog where it was the last time you opened it.
AFAICT, it works with multiple monitors. We don't set any virtual desktop.

I also use Gnome 3, and never saw incompatibilities between this window
manager and pgAdmin3.

> I guess the bug can be fixed as:
>

If the bug is in pgAdmin3...

> 1) Always spawn new child windows on the same monitor.
> or
> 2) In Gnome 3, create the window on the virtual desktop that's
> currently active..
>


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