Re: Window History Placement

[Sasha Vasko <sasha aftercode net>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> For one thing, the extra property gives clients a way to turn off
>
> history
>
> > saving, which seems valuable.
>
>  Doesn't of of the two geometries in WM_NORMAL_HINTS do the same?
>
>
> You mean USPosition vs PPosition ? IIRC that was meant just as a way to
> suppress interactive placement when -geometry was specified, but those fields are
> almost universally ignored nowadays (and interactive placement is not common
> anymore).

I would not be so sure about this. USPosition/PPosition are just as 
usefull as they ever been, and I can envision quite a few user who would 
get rather upset if interactive placement would disappear.

What is exactly a reason why USPosition could not be used by the 
application to prevent Window Manager from overriding its position ?


Sasha


> Matthias