On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:41:12PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:47:30PM -0400, jason_at_sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seeing some interesting iconification behavior in fvwm 2.2. I hope
> > I can explain it clearly. (My apologies if this has already been
> > reported.)
> >
> > Suppose I have a window on a given page. Now, I drag it toward the edge
> > of the screen, so that more than 50% of its height or more than 50% of its
> > width (or both) is unviewable. Now, I perform an Iconify on said window.
> > Depending on where it's hanging off of the current page, the window
> > iconifies onto another (adjacent) page, and in some cases iconifies into
> > thin air!
> >
> > There are far too many cases to list, but I'll quickly go over my
> > findings. I have a 7x7 desktop. I call the 6x6 middle pages of my
> > desktop the 'internal' pages on my desktop. For any 'internal' page, I've
> > found that if the window is hanging more than 50% of the way off of the
> > _____ edge(s), then the window will iconify on the page _____ the current
> > page:
> >
> > left : to the left of
> > right : to the right of
> > top : above
> > bottom : below
> > left and top : to the left of and above
> > right and top : to the right of and above
> > left and bottom : to the left of and below
> > right and bottom : to the right of and below
> >
> > This is at least consistent. :-)
> >
> > For non-internal pages on my desktop, it's pretty much up for grabs where
> > the icon goes upon iconification. In my investigation, I've found that
> > symmetric cases do not necessarily lead to symmetric results -- for
> > example, iconifying a window hanging off the left edge of any leftmost
> > page will cause the icon to appear on the current page (good!), but
> > iconifying a window hanging off the right edge of any rightmost page will
> > result in the icon disappearing into thin air, only to be retrieved via
> > the Window List (bad!). It's too much typing for me to list other cases,
> > so I will only do that if I'm begged to. :-)
>
> The only 'real' problem I see is the case where the window simply vanishes.
> All other cases were intended by the person that wrote the code in the first
> place. Anyway, this has been changed in the development sources. Now, whenever
> at least a single pixel of the window is visible it will iconify on the
> current page. That may not help with the vanishing window. I will check and
> fix this problem.
>
> > My guess is that this is sufficient information to track down the
> > problem, and that it will hopefully have an easy fix that will take care
> > of the more complicated examples that I am omitting. Or even better, it
> > would be nice if this problem was spotted and fixed already. In that
> > case, I apologize for the redundancy. :-) Please feel free to contact me
> > if you need anything clarified.
>
> Thanks for the excellent problem report. This is the quality that saves
> us much time (which we can spend on new features).
Fixed.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Fri May 14 1999 - 20:45:37 BST