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knuckles

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Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« on: December 24, 2016, 05:19:53 pm »
So I have just managed to install latest Lazarus (v1.6.2) and FPC (3.0.0) on Linux Mint Cinnamon Serena 64-bit, I have it dual boot alongside Windows 10.

I am not too familiar with Linux and took quite a bit of work getting Lazarus installed (thanks to help from this forum) but there is one remaining issue, the Form Designer keeps moving itself when I add a new control to the form. For example:

- Start Lazarus

- Project > New Project ... > Application menu.

- Form1 Designer at this point is:
  - Left = 390
  - Top = 120
  - Height = 240
  - Width = 320

- Now I move Form1 Designer and resize it to say:
  - Left = 652
  - Top = 326
  - Height = 454
  - Width = 413

- Now I go to add a control from Tool palette at the top, say a TButton from the Standard tab.

- When I click on Form1 Designer the button adds but the form designer reverts back to the original dimensions and position:
  - Left = 390
  - Top = 120
  - Height = 240
  - Width = 320

This happens also when adding a control from the View > Components menu.

What gives? Why does the form designer keep moving and resizing back to old dimensions and position when adding a control to the form?

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? It is very odd and difficult to use IDE like this.

knuckles

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Re: Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2016, 05:23:53 pm »
As a temp workaround anchor docking and sparta docked form editor packages seem to work without form designer jumping and changing size.

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Re: Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2017, 11:14:37 pm »
Has anyone else experienced this behavior? It is very odd and difficult to use IDE like this.

YUP and like you, my cries for help are being ignored too.

I tried installing the three .deb files in Ubuntu 14.4 and Lazarus is fine.

Requests for help on Mint forums also being ignored. {sigh}

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Re: Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2017, 11:39:34 pm »
Hi, I use Linux Mint 17.2 Mate and don't have this problem. May be MATE does work with GTK 2.X and 3.X.
Cinnamon use GTK-3 and Lazarus 1.6 by default (project, options) use widgetset LCL "gtk-2".
So, try to change the widgetset to gtk-3. (I really don't know if it's a solution).
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knuckles

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Re: Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2017, 05:29:10 pm »
Has anyone else experienced this behavior? It is very odd and difficult to use IDE like this.

YUP and like you, my cries for help are being ignored too.

I tried installing the three .deb files in Ubuntu 14.4 and Lazarus is fine.

Requests for help on Mint forums also being ignored. {sigh}

Well at least someone else experienced this too so I know I am not alone.

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Re: Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2017, 02:18:35 pm »
Are you using multiple monitor display? I have been having the same problem since I started using multiple displays in Lazarus on Linux Mint in a Parallels VM. If I revert to single monitor display the problem disappears. I hope that helps.

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Re: Form Designer Keeps Moving on Linux Mint
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2017, 02:48:38 pm »
Has anyone else experienced this behavior? It is very odd and difficult to use IDE like this.

YUP and like you, my cries for help are being ignored too.

I tried installing the three .deb files in Ubuntu 14.4 and Lazarus is fine.

Requests for help on Mint forums also being ignored. {sigh}

Well at least someone else experienced this too so I know I am not alone.

Happens to me as well. Everytime I try to drop a new control on a form, been this way for many versions. To be honest, it doesn't bother me that much.

Sometimes they don't jump about if I explicitly set the left/top then save, close lazarus, reopen it and then add controls.

 

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