Re: twm? How to test [was: Re: Various comments, mostly on ImplementationNotes]

[Sasha_Vasko osca state mo us]

>>Matthias Ettrich writes:
>>|What's the simpliest way to test this? Since xv does it definitely
wrong,
>an
>>|ICCC; compliant window manager lets the xv image window jump whenever
the
>user
>>|types 'n', right?
>>
>>This is what happened with sawfish _before_ I changed it to (what I
>>understand as) the ICCCM compliant behaviour!
>>
>>Now XV stays in the same position when I hit next..
>
>Actually it should jump. It requests NorthWest gravity, but moves self as
>if it had
>StaticGravity. As the result it should slowly shift up-left-wards.

ooops, sorry, down-right-wards

>
>I had to add a piece of code that would override XV gravity to be static
>(if window class is XVroot ) into AfterStep in order to prevent it from
>shifting.

>>
>>|
>>|This does not happen with twm, so I guess twm doesn't do it correctly.
>>
>>I guess this means that sawfish and twm now do the same thing.. I'm not
>>sure if that's correct or not..! :-(
>>
>>    John
>
>
>Sasha.