Solved [XFCE 4.20] Debug coordinates shown while moving windows

Perceval

Perceval

Hello !
Small question... I don't know why, but since the last pkg upgrade (not even sure), when I'm moving any window (Thunar, Firefox, etc), I have kind of debug info in the center of the window, displaying its size and its coordinates in a small box, ie : (800x600) @ (608,114) .

I don't know where to search to disable this ; that's not problematic, but not useful for my concern. (BTW, if I run startx, it does not appear, so it's XFCE-related).

EDIT : I use XFCE 4.20.

Thank you as usual :)
 
Perceval said:
since the last pkg upgrade (not even sure), when I'm moving any window (Thunar, Firefox, etc), I have kind of debug info in the center of the window, displaying its size and its coordinates in a small box, ie : (800x600) @ (608,114) .
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I can confirm this finding; after I upgraded to XFce 4.20 on one of my machines this shows up. pkg upgrade, nothing else.
Funny, I didn't even notice this until I read this thread :D
 
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there is a /general/show_position property in xfwm4:
Code: 
tingo@kg-core1:~ $ DISPLAY=:0.0 xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -l
/general/activate_action
/general/borderless_maximize
/general/box_move
/general/box_resize
/general/button_layout
/general/button_offset
/general/button_spacing
/general/click_to_focus
/general/cycle_apps_only
/general/cycle_draw_frame
/general/cycle_hidden
/general/cycle_minimized
/general/cycle_minimum
/general/cycle_preview
/general/cycle_raise
/general/cycle_tabwin_mode
/general/cycle_workspaces
/general/double_click_action
/general/double_click_distance
/general/double_click_time
/general/easy_click
/general/focus_delay
/general/focus_hint
/general/focus_new
/general/frame_border_top
/general/frame_opacity
/general/full_width_title
/general/horiz_scroll_opacity
/general/inactive_opacity
/general/maximized_offset
/general/mousewheel_rollup
/general/move_opacity
/general/placement_mode
/general/placement_ratio
/general/popup_opacity
/general/prevent_focus_stealing
/general/raise_delay
/general/raise_on_click
/general/raise_on_focus
/general/raise_with_any_button
/general/repeat_urgent_blink
/general/resize_opacity
/general/scroll_workspaces
/general/shadow_delta_height
/general/shadow_delta_width
/general/shadow_delta_x
/general/shadow_delta_y
/general/shadow_opacity
/general/show_app_icon
/general/show_dock_shadow
/general/show_frame_shadow
/general/show_popup_shadow
/general/snap_resist
/general/snap_to_border
/general/snap_to_windows
/general/snap_width
/general/theme
/general/tile_on_move
/general/title_alignment
/general/title_font
/general/title_horizontal_offset
/general/title_shadow_active
/general/title_shadow_inactive
/general/title_vertical_offset_active
/general/title_vertical_offset_inactive
/general/titleless_maximize
/general/toggle_workspaces
/general/unredirect_overlays
/general/urgent_blink
/general/use_compositing
/general/vblank_mode
/general/workspace_count
/general/workspace_names
/general/wrap_cycle
/general/wrap_layout
/general/wrap_resistance
/general/wrap_windows
/general/wrap_workspaces
/general/zoom_desktop
/general/zoom_pointer
 
tingo said:
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there is a /general/show_position property in xfwm4:
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Last comments in the referenced issue where that somebody was going to add this. But that apparently never happened.

VladiBG said:
It may be the build option -DSHOW_POSITION
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Yes, but that's been there for at least 16 years.

Perceval said:
I don't know where to search to disable this ; that's not problematic, but not useful for my concern.
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It seems the option got added with the last update: ports: 939e8ca9ba0754584bbfe8920007d0cc482b5083

Most notably:
Code: 
 		--enable-xpresent \
-		--disable-kde-systray
+		--enable-poswin

ports - FreeBSD ports tree

cgit.freebsd.org cgit.freebsd.org

Remove that --enable-poswin from the port's Makefile.

Might be a good idea to have this as a proper OPTION to select in the port. At least until it does get configurable through xfconf.
 
Thank you very much for your kind feedback !
Indeed, the option --enable-poswin does look to be "the bug" (not in fact, but it's not supposed to be enabled). As it is not critical, I won't play with things I might not handle and keep it with this way until it's disabled and if it's not, I'll use the port...
Thank you very much, I toggle the thread as solved since there's a way to solve this !
 
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