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[sg27]

I am a rank beginner with Linux but a very long time user of MC on Windows.  I installed Ubuntu on an old Dell Inspiron 15 and successfully installed MC 33 for Linux.  MC worked fine until I tried to import my library from Windows in order to restore tags and playlists.  As I used to do in Windows with new installations, I used find and replace inside the Rename, Move and Copy function to change the file location tag from the music directory on my windows installation to the music directory on the Ubuntu installation.  Now, sometimes playback works fine and MC finds the file and other times it does not.  I have not been able to discern the difference between the two contexts.  Any ideas?  When I hover over a song in the Audio view, the file path appears correct.  It also appears correct in the Filename field of a song.

On an unrelated but really annoying note, whenever MC 33 opens a window after I have clicked on a menu item, the window is barely visible because it is so small.  I can drag the corner of the window so that I can make bigger.  Any way to fix this?

[Awesome Donkey]

Where are the files located? Internal drive? NAS? If it's a separate drive or NAS, how is it mounted? Through fstab?

On an unrelated but really annoying note, whenever MC 33 opens a window after I have clicked on a menu item, the window is barely visible because it is so small.  I can drag the corner of the window so that I can make bigger.  Any way to fix this?

Known quirk about MC on Linux, no workaround other than resizing when it happens unfortunately.

[zybex]

Please paste a sample file path for a file that doesn't work.
If you restored a Windows library backup, you should edit your platform.jmd file and change it to 'Linux' so that MC handles backslashes correctly. Not sure if you also need to replace \ to / on all files.

[bob]

Where are the files located? Internal drive? NAS? If it's a separate drive or NAS, how is it mounted? Through fstab?

Known quirk about MC on Linux, no workaround other than resizing when it happens unfortunately.

Steps to reproduce? Doesn't happen for me.

[Awesome Donkey]

If you mean the small windows, the easiest way is to use a distro that uses Wayland (it does happen in X11 too apparently, but I imagine it's harder to reproduce). Dialogs like the about dialog, the dialog that pops up when doing a library backup, etc. are usually where I see it the most.

[cochinada]

If you mean the small windows, the easiest way is to use a distro that uses Wayland (it does happen in X11 too apparently, but I imagine it's harder to reproduce). Dialogs like the about dialog, the dialog that pops up when doing a library backup, etc. are usually where I see it the most.

It has happening to me quite often in the last hour. What I'm doing is simply getting TV Show info from Internet and Cover art as well so I'm able to reproduce it easily in case you are interested.

[bob]

Oh, I see, I'm not using Wayland and I've never seen the behavior without that.
It's almost certainly a Wayland bug in it's X emulation. There might be a workaround though if you any of you have a 100% reproducable  scenario.

[Awesome Donkey]

It happens on X too, it's just Wayland somehow makes it easier to get it to happen.

[bob]

It has happening to me quite often in the last hour. What I'm doing is simply getting TV Show info from Internet and Cover art as well so I'm able to reproduce it easily in case you are interested.

And it's AFTER accessing a menu item?
Is the menu in the normal place on the window or has the desktop moved it?

[cochinada]

And it's AFTER accessing a menu item?
Is the menu in the normal place on the window or has the desktop moved it?

No. It happened a lot when I was using the right button click and option "Get Movie & TV Info..." or "Cover Art/Get from Internet". All right click options as you can check.
It didn't happened 100% but above 75% or so.
All this in Standard View with the MC window maximized.

[mwillems]

And it's AFTER accessing a menu item?
Is the menu in the normal place on the window or has the desktop moved it?

So Bob I see this about once or twice a month using Wayland, usually when I open a dialog that I haven't opened in a while.  It's usually roughly in the right "location" it's just tiny.  If I fix the window it generally stays fixed for a while, but then reverts eventually.  It happens when the dialog or menu is opened, not during interaction with the dialog or menu (it just spawns tiny).

I can't reliably reproduce it as I haven't figured out what triggers the reversion, but it seems to be a function of either time or maybe version upgrades?  For example, I might take benchmarks once or twice a year so almost every time I open the benchmark window it's tiny, but if I open it a few days after my last benchmark its always fine.  So my advice to reproduce would be to go to a wayland environment and try opening a bunch of different settings windows you haven't used in a while. 

EDIT:  In testing it looks like every second or third time I open the "Get Cover Art from the Internet" dialog it's tiny, so I'll second cochinada's suggestion of using that to reproduce the issue as it reliably fails here.  I hadn't noticed because I only use wayland on client machines where I don't do cover art operations.  It doesn't happen that frequently to most other windows although appears to affect almost every dialog window sometimes.