Guake: Guake 3.2.2 does not have transparency

[Moulick]

I just updated from guake 0.8.8 in the ubuntu archives to 3.2.2 HEAD compiled from source. The 0.8.8 version had transparency but 3.2.2 does not. Is this a bug or a problem in my settings?

Gif attached.

➜ guake --version
Guake Terminal: 3.2.2
VTE: 0.48.4
VTE runtime: 0.48.4
Gtk: 3.22.25

[gsemet]

which distribution are you using?

[Moulick]

Its Ubuntu 17.10

[AleksandrRadchenko]

Same problem with Guake 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 18.04. Guake 3.0.5-1 (from ubuntu ppa) has transparency, but crashes with on_window_halign_value_changed(): local variable 'which_align' referenced before assignment

[fprawits]

I tried Guake3 for the first time (been a long-time 0.8 user) today and ran into the following two issues:

1) Transparency doesn't work with latest commit (3.2.1 in my case, I don't know where other people got the 3.2.2 release from)
=> this is fixed by git checkout to the 3.2.0 tag and compiling from there, so maybe there is a regression of some sort?

2) tray indicator is missing (both in 3.2.1 and 3.2.0, was working back in 0.8). since this isn't related to the issue here, I can start a separate 'issue' for this, but maybe this is already well known and someone can point me to the right place.

I am using ubuntu 16.04 (with x11, no wayland)

[Moulick]

@fprawits So just to clarify, the transparency issue is not there in ver 3.2.0?

[fprawits]

@Moulick Yes, after my initial fetch today (version 3.2.1) I was annoyed by the missing transparency and started trying out older versions. So when I built from 3.2.0 transparency worked as expected. The only thing I am currently missing is the mentioned indicator applet.

[Moulick]

Something weird just happened. As you did, I just tried out git checkout tags/3.2.0, compiled it, installed it. Now the transparency is back but guake --version shows 3.2.2. How it that possible ???

and Now I compiled/installed tags/3.2.1 and I still have transparency, but guake --version shows 3.2.2. What the heck is going on? @fprawits

[gsemet]

Do you have something in the log related to this transparency issue ?

[fprawits]

Ok, this is really weird I now get why people are talking about version 3.2.2, despite the repo only showing 3.2.1 as the latest version. My HEAD is currently sitting at 3.2.0 as described above and I compiled from there (made sure to perform sudo make uninstall before performing make && sudo make install), and guake --version is reporting 3.2.2 for me as well.

@Moulick: I am not familiar with your desktop environment, but if I haven't missed anything on your screen-shot there, the tray indicator seems to be missing for you as well? I don't want to derail this thread off-topic, just give me a quick notice whether you simply deactivated this, otherwise I would like to start a separate issue thread for it in case this bug isn't just specific to my setup.

[gsemet]

make reinstall

[fprawits]

quick follow-up: I just reattached my HEAD to the tip of the history (sitting at the top of the current commit 2908357bf851063dbac7e813dfa746a06e0ba469), recompiled and the transparency issue is gone now as well!

I noticed guake/data showing up under untracked files when performing git status, is it possible that we imported something into our working directory when compiling from the 3.2.0 tag, that now makes the transparency work at the tip of master again?

[fprawits]

So the strange thing is, that I now cannot even recreate the initial bug. If I sudo make uninstall my current guake, clone the repo from GItHub into a new directory and compile from there, everything (except for the indicator) works as expected.

[Moulick]

@fprawits Yeah, I have the tray indicator turned off as I didn't need it.

Sometimes though my whole tray goes missing, but that's a bug in my setup, not guake.

I still don't get transparency when I compile HEAD but I have transparency for both tags/3.2.1 and tags/3.2.0.

@gsemet where can I get the logs?

[gsemet]

guake —debug

[TimKarsten]

RHEL 7.5,EPEL 7 guake package

I'm missing working transparency as well.

Name        : guake
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 0.8.7
Release     : 1.el7
Size        : 1.3 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : epel
Summary     : Drop-down terminal for GNOME
URL         : http://guake-project.org/
License     : GPLv2+
Description : Guake is a drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment,
            : so you just need to press a key to invoke him,
            : and press again to hide.

[fprawits]

@Moulick: unfortunately my report of an issue-free tip was pre-mature. It seems like I still had the old (tag 3.2.0) guake running while compiling from the current source. After a reboot transparency is gone again, so I will probably switch to one of the older tags for now until this gets sorted out. Sorry for the confusion I might have caused.

[gsemet]

Can one that have this issue bisect to get the commit that introduced the regression in the recent changes ?
Under Ubuntu 16.04 i don’t have any issue with transparency on the latest version

[TimKarsten]

I have installed it as a package and this would be my first attempt to bisect an application, let alone compiling it on RHEL.

[Moulick]

@gsemet I am willing to do it. But can you please outline the steps to bisect the commits? Just to be sure that I don't make any missteps that might lead to the wrong conclusion...

[gsemet]

either your use git bissect, doing a make reinstall between each step. It is pretty fun to play with :)

Or you manually checkout each commit, make reinstall, start guake and repeat manually until you find the commit that does the regression :)

[gsemet]

ok I managed to reproduce, bad install from my part. So it is pretty serious indeed! Culprit is 1ab678e52aebfa6d08a4918295bb8c9d6eaacadd !

[Moulick]

in master branch its da0a5c25e7587292131895b34ff394e74075cd07

[gsemet]

soon fixed :)

[Moulick]

Yep, The latest commit fixes the problem.