Shell: Two titlebar on Firefox with Pop Shell.

[laichiaheng]

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):
NAME="Manjaro Linux"
ID=manjaro
ID_LIKE=arch
PRETTY_NAME="Manjaro Linux"
ANSI_COLOR="1;32"
HOME_URL="https://www.manjaro.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.manjaro.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.manjaro.org/"
LOGO=manjarolinux

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy pop-shell or provide the latest commit if building locally):
r447.ff5f374-1

Issue/Bug Description:
There are two titlebar on firefox

Steps to reproduce (if you know):
Enable the Pop Shell plugin.
Disable the title bar in Firefox.

Expected behavior:
It looks normal without titlebar.

Other Notes:

[laichiaheng]

It also crashes when I right click on the firefox icon on dock.

[laichiaheng]

Can anyone fix it?

[jmmaranan]

@laichiaheng - hey, are you using Dash-To-Dock, when you mentioned Dock?

From what I have seen, Dash to Dock is the only extension that duplicates a window instance that cannot be grabbed or focused (2 or more dots appearing after doing Firefox > Customize > Show TitleBar = true.) - and makes the CPU go high when you click the app icon. It does manifest on other applications other than Firefox. There are probably two things you can do as a workaround:

Freezing when clicking on dock: Updating the Dash to Dock extension to version 68+ seems to work for me. If it freezes, without rebooting, log into another TTY (CTRL+ALT+F3), login then sudo killall gnome-shell - worked for me, before. CTRL+ALT+F2 to go back to the desktop environment. Or just reboot your system. _You cannot go back to the desktop not until you have rebooted gnome-shell_.

When the Title Bar is duplicated and no freezes: ALT+F2, then enter r, Enter works after toggling the Firefox titlebar.

Hope these help.

[eh8]

I am also experiencing this issue without dash-to-dock enabled.

[skewty]

This is perhaps related to the enable / disable titlebar feature in PopShell.

• start Firefox
• click Hamburger menu
• click Customize menu item
• [x] Titlebar

This feature does not seem to hide the titlebar in Firefox but does work in PyCharm. I am expecting this issue to be a Firefox upstream one.

[jmmaranan]

428 - should be able to fix the dash-to-dock ghosting - so clicking on the dock will not freeze when a persistent dot appears. I think I agree on the double title bars are something related to Firefox.

[laichiaheng]

This is perhaps related to the enable / disable titlebar feature in PopShell.

* start Firefox

* click Hamburger menu

* click Customize menu item

* [x]  Titlebar

This feature does not seem to hide the titlebar in Firefox but does work in PyCharm. I am expecting this issue to be a Firefox upstream one.

How? It does hide the title bar without Pop Shell.

428 - should be able to fix the dash-to-dock ghosting - so clicking on the dock will not freeze when a persistent dot appears. I think I agree on the double title bars are something related to Firefox.

Does it mean that this issue has been solved once Firefox accept this patch?

[jmmaranan]

@laichiaheng, no, it will only resolve your comment about crashing which is if you are using dash to dock and toggling the title bar on/off

[jmmaranan]

As for the title bar, that needs more research either that is pop-shell or the main Firefox app. The patch I did is for pop-shell.

[laichiaheng]

Does anyone have any clue now?

[eh8]

I installed this via gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell-git in the AUR.

I solved it by disabling show title bars in the applet settings.

[jmmaranan]

@laichiaheng - just curious - did you follow @skewty 's suggestion? And would you be able to send a screenshot after? It pertains to Firefox Customize menu/page and not exactly pop-shell.

[laichiaheng]

@jmmaranan What does he suggest? Disable hiding the titlebar? I have disabled it since I noticed this issue.
If it were a Firefox issue, it should happen without Pop Shell.

Without Pop Shell, it works fine. (Forget about the PH icon in the tab menu)

[jmmaranan]

@laichiaheng - it is pop-shell conflicting with the title-bars. The last comment context is about Firefox's title bar. So it is both of them.

The setup should be like this for now when you have Firefox, Pop-Shell and VSCode (or any Electron app):

• Tweaks > Extensions > Pop-Shell gear > Show Title Bars (should be checked) - so VSCode title bar will not disappear.
• Firefox > Customize > Show Title Bars (do not check)

the settings above is the fix to your original issue and I believe this can be closed.

The freezing when toggling Firefox Customize Title Bars should be fixed, and you have Dash-To-Dock installed, and it is showing an extra dot or leaves a dot when all Firefox windows are already closed.

[laichiaheng]

@jmmaranan Thanks, after disabling "Show Title Bars" in the Pop Shell extension setting, it works as expected now.

[jmmaranan]

If you are going to use VS Code, reverse the two settings.

[laichiaheng]

@jmmaranan There is another problem, if I disable Show Title Bars, the title bar of qbittorrent is gone. So I have no choice, I can only choose the second method, it looks ugly.

[jmmaranan]

If you follow my original suggestion of the two settings, pop shell show title, firefox off title bar. That should work

[laichiaheng]

@jmmaranan It does not.

[jmmaranan]

Could you restart gnome shell leaving them as is, as suggested? Alt + f2, r and popshell title check, Firefox off title.

[laichiaheng]

Could you restart gnome shell leaving them as is, as suggested? Alt + f2, r and popshell title check, Firefox off title.

The same.

Name            : gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell
Version         : r469.9e8ab29-1
Description     : Pop Shell - Tiling window management in Gnome (WIP)
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://github.com/pop-os/shell
Licenses        : GPLv3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gnome-shell
Optional Deps   : pop-shell-shortcuts: show custom keybindings [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 733.78 KiB
Packager        : Matti Hyttinen <[email protected]>
Build Date      : 
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Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

[jmmaranan]

@laichiaheng - I do not use qbittorrent but here is how it looks like on my end with the suggested settings.
Curious also on the theme you are using. I am using the default pop-dark/pop.

[laichiaheng]

I have tried it with the default Xorg session and Adwaita theme, the problem is still there.

[laichiaheng]

Any clue yet?

[skewty]

This is more than likely a Firefox upstream bug. Has anyone created one for this? If yes, please post a link to it here.
We will likely have more traction getting this resolved by the Mozilla devs. as development on this extension seems dead (for now?). It may / will hopefully pickup prior to the next PopOS release.

[laichiaheng]

This is more than likely a Firefox upstream bug. Has anyone created one for this? If yes, please post a link to it here.
We will likely have more traction getting this resolved by the Mozilla devs. as development on this extension seems dead (for now?). It may / will hopefully pickup prior to the next PopOS release.

This feature of Firefox works without the Pop Shell extension.

[jmmaranan]

@laichiaheng - sorry, do not have resolution for you because cannot replicate it on my end. Looking at the current code and history, @mmstick - has hidden the show title bar toggle in the prefs (Tweaks). If I am guessing correctly, it doesnt want to be found or changed just yet. The default on tweaks as far as I can remember, is that Pop-Shell Extension is enabled, inside it the Show Title Bar is enabled too. Then by default, Firefox ships with the Title Bar disabled from Customize.

@skewty - is this happening on your end too?

[laichiaheng]

@mmstick Holy Jesus! It is fixed! Thanks.