Re: panel, metacity, etc

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

Le mar 25/02/2003 à 15:52, Sean Middleditch a écrit :
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:13, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> > There hasn't been a response to this in a few days...
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the answers are but I'm sure someone on this list
> > does.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:05, Moses McKnight wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a couple of questions.
> > > 
> > > First, is there a way to configure metacity to remember window sizes and 
> > > positions like sawfish does?
> > 
> > I've heard of complaints about this too. I'm thinking it may have been
> > debated before. Does anyone know if it has and if so when and where?
> 
> No - the decision is that it's not Metacity's job.  If the app supports
> Session Management, it should do it on its own.
> 
> There is an add on - "Devil's Pie" or somesuch, that adds this feature
> for those who'd rather use broken apps with a hacked up WM...
> 

I don't know which add-on you're talking about but I submitted a patch
to bugzilla which _fixes_ it by using a default size for apps that save
their size stupidly. I think this kind of hack is needed because broken
apps include OpenOffice, Mozilla, Evolution and Nautilus... which are
not far from being the most important apps on anyone's desktop.

> > 
> > 
> > --Ben
> > 
> > > Second, this may be a problem with sawfish - I don't know.  I have a lower panel 
> > > that's set to auto-hide, but if I try to raise it when a window is up and 
> > > maximized I have to bring the mouse down, back up, and then back down for the 
> > > panel to raise.  It almost looks like the panel actually raises the first time 
> > > but is behind the window that's up.  This doesn't seem to happen with metacity.
> > > 
> > > Another thing is that any time a dialog pops up in Nautilus, the main Nautilus 
> > > window comes to the front and hides the dialog - quite a nusiance.
> > > 
> > > If there's a positive answer to my first question I'll simply use Metacity since 
> > > it doesn't seem to have these problems.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm using Debian Unstable BTW.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Moses
> > > 
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