pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3

Hi all -

I'm on openSuse running the latest stable release of Gnome3 (Just
trying it out, so far the fact I can't minimize windows is perhaps
more than my old school brain can handle)..

I've noticed in pgAdmin, basically no popup works.  If I right click
on the "Databases" branch and select "New Database", nothing happens.
If I right click on the "Tables" brand and select "New Table", nothing
happens..  I know for a fact this works when I logon with KDE..

If anyone wants more info from my system, just lemme know what I can
do to get that for you..  Thanks!!

Okay good news is that these menus do come up, bad news is the bug is
even more obscure. Here's my setup:

I have two monitors. Gnome3 allows you to create multiple desktops to
organize your windows, however this only affects your primary monitor.
I actually kinda like this, since I have my web browser on my second
monitor and I can "scroll through" apps on my primary monitor.

In this case, I had pgAdmin on my second monitor and some random app,
like Eclipse on the primary monitor. I selected "Create Database" on
pgAdmin and apparently nothing happened. What it actually did it
spawned the new dialog on my primary monitor BUT on another virtual
desktop. I finally noticed it when I flipped over to that one..

I guess the bug can be fixed as:

1) Always spawn new child windows on the same monitor.
or
2) In Gnome 3, create the window on the virtual desktop that's
currently active..

Mike

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:12:59 -0700, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com>
wrote:

Hi all -

I'm on openSuse running the latest stable release of Gnome3 (Just
trying it out, so far the fact I can't minimize windows is perhaps
more than my old school brain can handle)..

I've noticed in pgAdmin, basically no popup works.  If I right click
on the "Databases" branch and select "New Database", nothing happens.
If I right click on the "Tables" brand and select "New Table", nothing
happens..  I know for a fact this works when I logon with KDE..

If anyone wants more info from my system, just lemme know what I can
do to get that for you..  Thanks!!

Okay good news is that these menus do come up, bad news is the bug is
even more obscure. Here's my setup:

I have two monitors. Gnome3 allows you to create multiple desktops to
organize your windows, however this only affects your primary monitor.
I actually kinda like this, since I have my web browser on my second
monitor and I can "scroll through" apps on my primary monitor.

In this case, I had pgAdmin on my second monitor and some random app,
like Eclipse on the primary monitor. I selected "Create Database" on
pgAdmin and apparently nothing happened. What it actually did it
spawned the new dialog on my primary monitor BUT on another virtual
desktop. I finally noticed it when I flipped over to that one..

pgAdmin displays the dialog where it was the last time you opened it.
AFAICT, it works with multiple monitors. We don't set any virtual desktop.

I also use Gnome 3, and never saw incompatibilities between this window
manager and pgAdmin3.

I guess the bug can be fixed as:

If the bug is in pgAdmin3...

1) Always spawn new child windows on the same monitor.
or
2) In Gnome 3, create the window on the virtual desktop that's
currently active..

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On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 09:30 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:

I guess the bug can be fixed as:

If the bug is in pgAdmin3...

Could not reproduce any of those issues on Fedora 15.
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