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General discussion • Bughunting: window size, and hidden dialogs

1.0
I often turn off just the monitor, and when I turn it on again later the terminal windows have shrunk. So a window that were 80x24 become 79x22. If I repeat it, two more rows disappear, and one more column. This continue until there is only 7 rows left. I have not tested if columns continue to disappear.

1.1
Other windows like File Manager and Chromium grows sometimes and may grow partly over the menu line. It does not seam to happen every time, but quite often. I have not tested if it continue to grow, as I adjust it to not cover the menu line when it happens.

2.0
I inserted a small USB drive that possibly had some error that puzzled the Pi. It unmounted the SSD and claimed "Error mounting /dev/ada1 at /media/name/nameofSSD: can't read superblock on /dev/sda1"
where name is the name of the user, and nameofSSD is the name of the SSD.
Only mouse and keyboard in addition to the drives were connected to the Pi.

This dialog opened under the two dialogs to open the File Manager. The one on top for the small USB with grayed out buttons, and one in the middle for the SSD also with grayed out buttons.

Moving this to the side allowed me to press OK on the dialog on the bottom, and after that the buttons on the dialog to open the File Manager for the small disk and the SSD were accessible. Both opened without any problem.

Odd.

2.1
Possible related a Mousepad window that had text files open on the SSD grayed had grayed out menu line, and the window were not movable, nor were it possible to change between the 5 open text files. I suspect a dialog underneath. As it were inaccessible I waited to let the automatic saving function time to save changes, and then rebooted the Pi. This worked.


The window size bug should be easy to reproduce. The peculiar USB bug probably less so. Is there any particular test I should perform to wrestle out these bugs? Let me know.

The system is an updated 64bit bookworm 4Gpi4. It is booted from a SD card. The monitor have standard 1920x1080p resolution.

Statistics: Posted by ArcticAurora — Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:46 am



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