Re: FVWM: window placement on deiconification

From: Richard A Lee <rlee_at_mclean.sterling.com>
Date: 09 May 2000 18:03:31 -0400

R Tapia <tapia_at_swcp.com> writes:

> This isn't a bug report, I'm just curious about the reason for a
> particular aspect of FVWM's behavior.
>
> Throughout 2.2 and in 2.3, the following happens:
>
> I move a window so that the top is not visible on the current page
> and then iconify it. When I deiconify it, the window appears
> with the top visible at the bottom of the current page.
>
> I've always found this a bit disconserting. Whenever I install a new
> version of fvwm2, I "fix" this behavior by commenting out a couple of
> lines of code.
>
> At first, I thought that it was an obvious bug and that it would
> eventually be fixed. As new versions came out, I assumed that that was the
> behavior that the developers wanted.
>
> I'm just wondering, is this a bug, a feature, or am I doing something
> silly to make FVWM place deiconified windows as above?

I've been annoyed by that one, too. I do hope the developers don't
consider it a feature.
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Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 17:02:36 BST

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