Re: Popup window placement under sawfish

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 10/13/2003, Marco van Oostende wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use RH9 where I replaced the window manager with sawfish.  
> Main reason for this is that new windows are automatically  
> placed on non-used desktop space, instead of stacking them in  
> the upper left corner. Using a 1600x1200 display, this works  
> much better for me. (I realize this is a big, different  
> discussion, not important here...)
> 
> Problem is this: when most of the screen is almost full but  
> there is available space on the right hand side of the screen,  
> the new mail notification popup is placed wrong. I would expect  
> it to fill it with the right corner touching the right side of  
> the screen, but the left border of the popup is now touching  
> the right border of the window on the left (still there? I  
> dumped a screen example on
> http://www.oostende.nl/temp/wrong-popup.png :~)
> 
> On window$, I know there are also possibilities for poups to be  
> placed centered in the screen, or centered in the parent's  
> window. Can this be changed?
> 
> Regards,
> Marco

I also see this, under RH9's default wm (Metacity?), so I don't  
believe it's sawfish-related.