[Bug 1932328] Re: Thunderbird under Wayland does not correctly close (or manage) windows

Fri Aug 20 09:09:33 UTC 2021

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On 2021-08-09T03:33:34+00:00 Tristan wrote:

Created attachment 9235322
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:90.0)
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Steps to reproduce:

1. set wayland as window manager
2. open thunderbird, create or reply to an email and a second compose window appears
3. click send and compose window vanishes
4 thunderbird appears to still have two windows open but the second cannot be seen
5. repeat to create additional "phantom" windows

I am using Pop!_OS 21.04 (Ubuntu) with Mesa graphics and wayland enabled

Actual results:

from what I can assume, when sending an email the compose window closes,
but thunderbird/wayland still believes it to be open. if additional
phantom windows are created and thunderbird is closed, the phantom
windows stay open and thunderbird can't be started again until restart
occurs

Expected results:

once compose window closes, thunderbird should only display and report
main window open. If i fall back to x11 the program works as expected.

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On 2021-08-09T14:06:32+00:00 Wls220spring wrote:

Sorry, I don't use Wayland on my Fedora 34 Workstation and can't
confirm.

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On 2021-08-09T22:21:21+00:00 Tristan wrote:

Wayland is the default WM on fedora? unless its disabled for nVidia

simply switch at the login screen, replicate the bug, then switch back

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-
default-gnome-session/

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On 2021-08-10T14:56:05+00:00 Wls220spring wrote:

(In reply to gfunk from comment #2)
> Wayland is the default WM on fedora? unless its disabled for nVidia
> 
> simply switch at the login screen, replicate the bug, then switch back
> 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/

Disabled.

WebGL 1 Driver Renderer	NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2
WebGL 1 Driver Version	4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.144

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On 2021-08-13T21:40:28+00:00 Olivier Tilloy wrote:

Is this specific to the Thunderbird Ubuntu package, or can you also
observe it with upstream builds downloaded from
https://www.thunderbird.net/download/ ?

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On 2021-08-13T22:41:39+00:00 Olivier Tilloy wrote:

I'm answering my own question: I have managed to reproduce the issue
with the upstream build for 78.13.0, downloaded from thunderbird.net, in
a fully up-to-date Ubuntu 21.04 VM, executed with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1.

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On 2021-08-14T06:25:46+00:00 Tristan wrote:

(In reply to Olivier Tilloy from comment #5)
> I'm answering my own question: I have managed to reproduce the issue with the upstream build for 78.13.0, downloaded from thunderbird.net, in a fully up-to-date Ubuntu 21.04 VM, executed with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1.

thanks!

I might try on a fedora machine too if i get time

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On 2021-08-14T08:40:32+00:00 Richard Marti wrote:

TB 78 is one year old with mostly only security updates in this year and
the support ends around October. In this year Mozilla introduced a lot
of Wayland changes. Maybe you could test TB 91 which is the next release
version of TB? TB 91 was released this week and probably not yet in the
distros.

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On 2021-08-16T14:49:55+00:00 Olivier Tilloy wrote:

I have also reproduced the problem with the upstream build for 91.0,
downloaded from thunderbird.net, in a fully up-to-date Ubuntu 21.04 VM,
executed with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1.

gfunk, I'd be very interested in knowing whether that's an Ubuntu-
specific problem, or can also be observed on Fedora.

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On 2021-08-16T22:42:49+00:00 Tristan wrote:

Hey guys,
I've tested Fedora and the issue does not occur, it could be that Fedora uses Gnome 40 (vs Gnome 38 in Ubuntu)

As for thunderbird 91, it seems to have created a new profile, I'll wait
until i can migrate my old profile

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On 2021-08-17T07:39:52+00:00 Olivier Tilloy wrote:

I set up a Fedora 33 VM to try and reproduce the issue there (Fedora 34
has GNOME 40, which the dash-to-dock extension isn't compatible with
yet, and the problem is better observed with dash-to-dock configured to
show one dot per open window). The default session is running on
Wayland.

When running thunderbird 91.0 from the upstream tarball, I'm seeing that
the icon displayed in the dock is the expected one when
`MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND` is *not* set, however it's a generic cog icon when
running with `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1`.

Aside from that problem, I haven't managed to reproduce the issue
described here with phantom windows yet, but I'll give it more tries,
because it's not 100% reproducible on Ubuntu either.

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On 2021-08-17T14:48:48+00:00 Olivier Tilloy wrote:

I tested this further, and despite repeated attempts, I wasn't able to observe the issue in my Fedora VM.
Could it be a problem in the interaction between thunderbird and the version of dash-to-dock that's in Ubuntu, maybe?

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