Re: [Evolution-hackers] How to tell the difference between an evo bug and a metacity one?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well the easiest way is to just try another window manager and see what it does.

Window placement is pretty strongly in the hands of the window manager, so its almost certainly there, there may be options to control placement somewhere.

I presume metacity has an entry in the gnome bugzilla?  Dunno since I don't use it!

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 10:44 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> When I go to add an address by right clicking on an email address and
> then selecting "Add to Addressbook" from the popup menu, the next
> dialog, "Add address" is showing up in random positions all over the
> screen.
>
> mail/em-util.c, circa line 560, has
> 	
> 	win = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
> 	gtk_window_set_title((GtkWindow *)win, _("Add address"));
> 	gtk_window_set_transient_for((GtkWindow *)win, ((GtkWindow *)parent));
> 	gtk_window_set_position((GtkWindow *)win, GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER_ON_PARENT);
> 	gtk_window_set_type_hint((GtkWindow *)win, GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DIALOG);
>
>
> Clearly POS_CENTER_ON_PARENT is there, but the dialog is ending up far
> bottom left, bottom right, etc. Very strange.
>
> I *do* have two monitors, and hence metacity built with xinerama
> support. I suppose the problem with the window placement could be there,
> but I'm not enough of a wizard to diagnose that.
>
> If anyone cares, could you pass this on to the right person?
>
> AfC
> Sydney

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer