Re: Window size/position.

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 13:10, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> iain <iain ximian com> writes: 
> > "Who's responsibility is it to handle restoration of window
> > size/position?"
> > 
> > >From what I had gathered it was up to the window manager, but with
> > Metacity not doing it, is it now up to the application? Or is it simply
> > that Metacity doesn't do it yet, but will in the future?
> > 
> 
> So, I started a thread about this on wm-spec-list, but I didn't seem
> to be able to convince other WM authors that it was a problem. :-/
> 
> IMO it clearly is a problem, we need to know definitively if apps or
> the WM do this, or it will never work right.
> 
> Because given current specs the WM _can't_ do this
> correctly/accurately, my opinion is that we have to say it's up to the
> application for now. However I think it might be nice to extend the
> specs such that the WM could do it. See the wm-spec-list thread.
> 
> Havoc


>From the metacity README

- Session management:

  Metacity connects to the session manager and will set itself up to
  be respawned. It theoretically restores sizes/positions/workspace
  for session-aware applications.


This doesn't appear to be happening for me (the restoring
size/positions), though maybe the apps I tried are broken (gedit, eog). 
Has this changed?

Thanks,
James