[lubuntu-users] [lubuntu-devel] lubuntu 32-bit 18.10

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Walter,

Doing my best to reduce the workload of the bug fixers...

Yesterday I printed and studied the notes you recommended. There was a typo
in the notes, however, it contained a link written as "How to Write Bugs
Effectively". It should read "How to Report Bugs Effectively". As an on and
off programmer, I have never needed a guide to introducing bugs :)

This evening I downloaded and installed the 18.10 32-bit release of lubuntu
via USB flash drive:-
38e0bf05b6bfc3faa700f779e94cc1b7  lubuntu-18.10-desktop-i386.iso

*In a nutshell:*
I don't think it is a calamares bug - from what I understand, calamares is
the installer.
The problem is something to do with window management. When a window is
created, whatever is creating the window does not take into account that
the taskbar takes up vertical pixels. The result is that you sometimes end
up with some windows that have some of their contents hidden by the taskbar.

*Hardware details:*
Samsung NC10 Netbook, hostname: hawking
Intel Atom N270, 1.66GHz, 32-bit, 2GiB RAM, 149.05 GiB hard drive, no
optical drive, Ethernet and WiFi connections, lubuntu typically installed
via USB flashdrive
https://gist.github.com/21b61903871ee685fc79
Screen dimensions: 1024 x 600 pixels, 270 x 158mm
Resolution: 96 x 96 dots per inch

*Notes from this evening's install of 18.10*
Installing from USB flash drive onto netbook.
The "Welcome to the lubuntu installer" window's buttons - e.g. "Next" &
"Cancel" are obscured by the taskbar. Maximising this window not only fixes
the problem for this screen but for quite a few following screens (that is
"Location","Keyboard", "Partitions","Partitioning").
When I chose to edit a partition, the resulting subwindow had to be
maximised for me to see the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons which appeared to be
obscured by the taskbar.

*Conclusion*
I don't know whether this is a window manager (openbox) issue or if it is a
problem with the display manager (sddm). What do you think?

BW,


Ian

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