Re: Sawfish/Gnome/Xinerama dropping windows

[Timo Korvola <Timo Korvola iki fi>]

Scott Anderson <ee_in_co yahoo com> writes:
> I don't understand how parent/child window geometries work, but I
> believe the size of my panel is 1600x23, so 1177+23 = 1200 is the
> bottom of the screen.

I think the absolute position of a child window should generally be
absolute position of parent + relative position of child, but that did
not seem to hold here.

> In other words, what options do we still have?

xwininfo -id <winid> shows the mapping state and override redirect
flag, among other things.  xprop -id <winid> WM_STATE shows the
WM_STATE property.  If it does not exist, the window is withdrawn,
which I would expect to be the case.

That should be the easy part, figuring out precisely what kind of a
mess the system is in.  The hard part is figuring out how it got
there, particularly if it only happens rarely.

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	Timo Korvola		<URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>