🚀 go-pugleaf

|> In article <TOML.91Apr11144428@marvin.Solbourne.COM>, toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) writes:
|> |> > I don't have any objection to this, but when running under the tvtwm window
|> |> > manager, the windows always wind up popping up over in the home corner of
|> |> > the large "virtual" root window.
|> |> 
|> |> It would appear that InterViews is setting USPosition hints.  USPosition
|> |> should only be set if the USER has asked for a window to be placed in a
|> |> specific location.  For program default positions, PPosition should be
|> |> used instead.
|> 
|> In the current implementation, by the time hints are set we don't know whether
|> the placement is program-specified or via customization (command-line, Xdefaults,
|> app-defaults).  Setting USPosition is correct for the latter case (customization);
|> the former shouldn't happen for top-level windows (at least, I can't see a reason
|> why an application would do that).  Transients are the one place where USPosition
|> is technically wrong, but it seems like you would want window managers to put
|> transients where the program wants anyway.

I think program specified placement is common for multi top-level window
applications where it is desired to have the top-level windows positioned
relative to one another.

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(I kid you not)Tom LaStrange        toml@Solbourne.COM