Serious bug

[Donald Allen]

The day after I reported this problem, I sent another message saying
that I'd tried this again and had no trouble. Since that time, I've
been using xmonad because of other issues I found with hlwm. Today, I
decided to try again. While reconciling an account with my newcash
software, I ran into this issue again: transactions located with
'find' do not appear in the window, despite the gtk code that is
supposed to insure that they do. And again, this works correctly with
every other window manager I've tried. I think there's a real bug
here.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> As always, I'm running herbstluftwm 0.6.2-2 on an up-to-date 64-bit
> Arch Linux system.
>
> I have written my own financial management software (which I will
> release on github when I finish the documentation) called Newcash.
> Just as your window manager owes a debt to dwm, my financial manager
> owes a debt to Gnucash.
>
> Newcash is written in C (though I am now pretty far along with a
> re-write it in Haskell, perhaps for similar reasons that you re-wrote
> your window manager in C++) and is built on top of gtk+3 and sqlite3.
> When started, a window containing the tree of accounts appears.
> Double-click an account and you get an account register, showing all
> the transactions associated with the selected account. I wanted to add
> a new transaction that was similar to a transaction from a couple of
> years ago. So I used the Newcash 'find' command, which provides a
> regexp search of any transaction field. When you find the transaction
> you are interested in, you can then duplicate it to create the new
> one. The duplication saves the trouble of configuring the
> transaction's splits with the right accounts.
>
> When the 'find' routine locates a transaction with a regexp match, it
> scrolls the register window to it with gtk_tree_view_scroll_to_cell
> and places the cursor in it with gtk_tree_view_set_cursor.
>
> Running herbstluftwm, it appears that the scrolling operation fails,
> because the highlighted transaction is not shown in the window (I had
> the two windows -- account tree and account register stacked
> vertically in one frame). Hunting around a bit and I found it using
> the mouse wheel.
>
> In dwm, xmonad, i3, and fvwm (all window managers I've tried with the
> same Newcash code), this works properly.
>
> This is a serious problem for me, and I cannot use your window manager
> until it is fixed. If I can help debug this, I'd be happy to do so.
>
> /Don