Re: Initial position of windows

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

Thanks for the help; that indeed works. In retrospect, I see I was (am) 
suffering from information overload....

Perhaps you can educate me about the following related issues. If I 
show_all, then move, it all works fine (there's presumably the risk of a 
flash, though I haven't seen it). If on the other hand I move, then 
show_all, two strange/bad things happen: 1) Trying to move to (0,0) 
gives a random placement; I have to move to (1,0) or (0,1) or (1,1) to 
get near the northwest corner. 2) If I run an extended desktop with two 
physical displays, the window flashes briefly and then disappears 
(behavior is normal if I show_all before the move). I guess I can live 
with show_all before move, but this behavior does seem strange.

Somewhere I thought I read that one should explicitly set_position 
before doing the move, so I tried this:

Gtk::WindowPosition initpos = WIN_POS_NONE;
window->set_position(initpos);
window->move(x,y);

But this and variants give me compilation errors.on the first statement 
(no such thing as WIN_POS_NONE, etc.). It seems likely that I'm confused 
in the multiple layers of gtkmm vs gtk+....??

Bruce Sherwood

Joaquim Duran wrote:
> En/na Jonathon Jongsma ha escrit:
>   
> > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:55 -0500, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> >     
> > > What is the recommended method to create windows at specific locations? 
> > >  From what I've read, it seems like the only way is to first create the 
> > > windows, get their positions, then move them to the desired locations, 
> > > which seems like it would make the initial display flash 
> > > inappropriately. Advice appreciated.
> > >
> > >       
> > if you call move() before you call show() then, there will not be any
> > flash since the window is not actually displayed yet.  Does that work
> > for you?
> >
> >     
>
> Take in to account that there is also the Window Manager and It could
> change these settings.
>
> Joaquim Duran
>
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