Re: E: netscape won't do manual placement - why?

[torben fjerdingstad <unitfj-gnome tfj rnd uni-c dk>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:35:15AM -0500, raster@redhat.com wrote:
> On 15 Mar, torben fjerdingstad scribbled:
> ->  I have selected "Place windows manually" in e-conf. It works
> ->  fine, except for netscape. Why? New windows automatically
> ->  are placed so they totally overlap the initial netscape
> ->  window.
> ->  Is it a netscape problem? Can it be circumvented?
> 
> netscape - netscape asks specifically to be places at a certain
> location (8as do its popups) - thus E places them there. Manual
> placment is only available for windows that dont request specific
> locations.

Please don't let fvwm2 hear that. It does allow me to do manual
placement of all the netscape windows.
That is fvwm2-2.0.46-11.

> ->  I had no problem with netscape/fvwm2 and manual placement.
> ->  (Style "*" ActivePlacement, DumbPlacement)

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