Re: FVWM: ``Style "XMMS*" NoTitle'' breaks xmms main window position

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:02:38 +0100

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:19:14PM +0100, Jerome Breviere wrote:
> Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:49:25 +0100
> Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de> écrivait:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:10:55PM +0100, Jerome Breviere wrote:
> > > I had the same problem some month ago when upgrading from 2.3.16 to
> 2.4.x.> > I finally found out that 2.4.x came with new placement policy
> options.> > Everything went back to normal with :
> > >
> > > Style "XMMS*" UsePPosition
> >
> > The 'new' options are rather the old ones merged into a single
> > line of options (instead of the various combinations you could
> > have before). Little new functionality was added. Anyway, it is
> > definitely xmms that is or was doing funny things old versions
> > moved their own windows instead of providing the proper placement
> > hints to fvwm. This circumvented the NoPPosition option. Also,
> > xmms 1.24 moved the window to strange and random positions. So in
> > the end, fvwm had nothing to do with the problem. The xmms
> > ChangeLog sais something about having fixed placement of xmms
> > windows with a title under certain window managers (1.25). I
> > tried the latest release and it behaves as it should.
>
> Mmmh, i've just complied xmms 1.27 and i've still the same problem. I have
> to use "UsePPosition" to have main window with proper placement.
> I must admit i have the same problem with freeamp (but it is ok with
> gqmpeg). Maybe a problem with my fvwm config files ....

We may be talking about different problems. To allow xmms to
place its windows at all, you need UsePPosition (because that
style was explicitly designed for that purpose). But even with
UsePPosition xmms-1.24 does funny things with the window position
that xmms-1.27 does not.

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 Sun Mar 10 2002 - 02:00:43 GMT

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