Re: Initial window placement

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Philipp Lohmann <Philipp Lohmann Sun COM> writes:
> Am 16.08.01, 21:15:36, schrieb Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> zum Thema 
> Re: Initial window placement:
> 
> > > So the least i would like to have to implement this is information about
> > > the real frame geometry. It would be even better if i could place the
> > > dialogue out of the way in the beginning.
> 
> > I don't have any objection to a hint set by the WM on the client
> > window containing the current bounding box of the frame. It's
> > occasionally useful to have, while not really allowing clients to try
> > to do window management.
> 
> Ok. Should the WM do this automatically or should the client ask for this 
> ? In the latter case the WM could save some resources on most windows.
> 

I'd do it automatically, it could be useful to have in e.g. xprop
output.

Havoc