On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Rene Huber wrote:
<snip>
> > I would like to point out again, it is very important for future application
> > development on Unix/X11, that the window managers follow the same convention.
> > So far, CDE, OLWM, 4Dwm, KDE, GNOME and WindowMaker all follow the same
> > convention. FVWM2, blackbox, AfterStep and Enlightenment follow a different
> > convention. FVWM2 is in the minority.
> >
> > So, have I convinced the FVWM2 maintainers to make the changes I requested
> > earlier? All I want is that all major window managers follow the same
> > convention (since ICCCM has not made it a standard). Personally, I think the
> > convention implemented by CDE should be followed, because CDE is the industry
> > standard window manager (I am one of the few running FVWM2 at work, everyone
> > else runs CDE 2.0).
> >
>
>
> Why not do it the way mwm has done it: make it configurable. From
> the mwm manual page:
>
> positionIsFrame (class PositionIsFrame)
> This resource indicates how client window posi-
> tion information (from the WM_NORMAL_HINTS prop-
> erty and from configuration requests) is to be
> interpreted. If the resource value is True, the
> information is interpreted as the position of
> the mwm client window frame. If the value is
> False, it is interpreted as being the position
> of the client area of the window. The default
> value of this resource is True.
>
>
> In fvwm, it might even be a Style, seeing that not all applications
> behave the same.
>
> RH
A configuration option for configurable window placement behavior would be an
acceptable solution. I would be even happier if FVWM2 followed MWMs example,
and made the placement by frame the default, while maintaining the current
placement behavior as a backwards compatibility configuration option.
Paul.
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Received on Sat Jun 30 2001 - 00:49:41 BST