Re: FVWM: window placement on deiconification

From: Michael Han <mikehan_at_best.com>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:46:38 -0700

Previously from R Tapia
>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 can't reproduce this. Are you leaving anything out of your
description?

>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.

Care to share?

>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?

Well, personally I'd say this is wrong, and doubt that anyone
disagrees. But I think this is the first time anyone's reported this.
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Received on Wed May 10 2000 - 00:47:29 BST

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