On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:01:53 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Elijah Newren wrote: > >On 9/5/05, Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au> wrote: > >>Elijah Newren wrote: > >>I don't think this is a WM bug. The WM ( in this case, > >>Enlightenment-0.17 ) is doing exactly what the code says - aligning the > >>top-right of the popup with the bottom-right of the cell. The problem is > >>in the logic of the positioning of the popup. I'm almost done on a > >>solution. > > > >Ooops, I missed the part where you were manually positioning it. > >Yeah, that's a tough call on whether the WM should follow that or > >force the window onscreen, so it's not clear which is right. > > > I disagree that it's a tough call. If an app requests to be drawn at a > particular position, then the only valid action on the part of the WM is > to do just that. Consider an app that starts off-screen and scrolls > onscreen. Maybe this is a tacky example, but it's perfectly valid. No, > actually, here's a not-so-tacky example - an OS-X like starter bar :) Isn't popoup an OverrideRedirect window? If it is, than window manager just can't do anything about it, because it simply does not know about it. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>
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