Window focus problem

[OficineRobotica]

Hello to all.

I have this strange problem with freecad 0.19 appimage on kubuntu 19.10. It seems that the main program window loses focus in some circumstances. By this i mean that , for example and only at times I loose the global menu in the top bar.

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But , most annoyingly it is the fact that pop up windows of freecad don't "pop up" but under the main window and to have them i need to ALT-TAB freecad with some other application to have them apear.
In this example i choosed a constraint and pushed the edit constrain icon but the pop up window does not apear. It will after i change focus with some other application.

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Note that freecad from the daily ppa doesn't suffer from this problem

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I use the ClearMenuBar parameter as sugested by triplus here https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 66#p290053 but i dont think that is the problem.

Anybody has any suggestion?

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OS: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch) (KDE/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.18260 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: dbf0644b60c35273525985fa13859ad39b0c10df
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)

[openBrain]

This is something very strange that your global menu items seem to appear into the Kbar... Is it something native in Kubuntu 19.10? Could it be removed to have a "standard" behavior?

[OficineRobotica]

The global menu is an option and i'm a long time user but freecad never presented this kind of behavior before 0.19.18260 (Git) AppImage . I disabled the global menu to see if it can be the cause but unfortunately freecad still does "hide" pop up windows.

In the screenshot i chose a constraint and pushed the button to edit it. A pop up window should apear but it doesn't

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This behavior is extended to all pop up windows. If i right click an item in the tree and chose Appearance , for example, i need to alt-tab back and forth to get the Appearance window to show. Also the behavior is not consistent , meaning that , at times , changing the workbench might change the weird state that the main window is in and make popup windows magically re appear. The daily ppa version of freecad behaves absolutely normal tough. It's the appimage one that has problems and i prefer the appimage.

[OficineRobotica]

Also, doing some further digging it seems that this problem is present only on kubuntu 19.10. Triyng the same appimage on kde neon, based on ubuntu 18.04 i don't seem to have the same problem

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In this case, freecad info

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OS: KDE neon User Edition 5.16 (KDE//usr/share/xsessions/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.18260 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: dbf0644b60c35273525985fa13859ad39b0c10df
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)

[looo]

The daily ppa version of freecad behaves absolutely normal tough.

freecad never presented this kind of behavior before 0.19.18260 (Git) AppImage

Which version of qt does the daily ppa use?

This might be related to the update to qt5.12. There is a new version of qt5.12 coming soon to the appimage. Not sure if this will fix your issue but I guess it's worth waiting for it before diving into this problem. I will trigger a build today so appimage will be updated tomorrow.

Also, doing some further digging it seems that this problem is present only on kubuntu 19.10. Triyng the same appimage on kde neon, based on ubuntu 18.04 i don't seem to have the same problem

I also cannot reproduce with ubuntu 18.04.

[OficineRobotica]

Freecad daily ppa info

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OS: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch) (KDE/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)

[OficineRobotica]

I will trigger a build today so appimage will be updated tomorrow.

Thank you...i will try it as soon as it's out.

[OficineRobotica]

I tried the latest appimage but unfortunately the problem still persists.

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OS: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch) (KDE/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.18289 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: bd6da5699ee63a0d568c940328cdb82cbfaac94a
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)