Re: Initial window placement

[Philipp Lohmann <Philipp Lohmann Sun COM>]

Am 13.08.01, 20:58:34, schrieb <Sasha_Vasko osca state mo us> zum Thema Re: 
Initial window placement:


> It is not possible thou if you have more the 2 windows in each direction.
> And I don't see that becoming possible unless you add some kind of
> arrangement hint to tell Window Manger explicitely to place several 
windows
> next to one another. Possibly idea for 2.0 specs ? I'm not quite sure 
that
> this
> is really needed thou, as it creates other problems, like potential
> race conditions.

> It is worth noting thou, that one can always use override_redirect
> windows to solve above problem when lifetime of the windows is very short
> ( which is common for dialogs ).

I wouldn't want to take the possibility to move/resize the dialogues from 
the user. Also dialogues usually need to display a title. Also there are 
long lived dialogues.

You could avoid race conditions and such by just giving the application a 
possibility to place/size the frame exactly.

Regards, Philipp