Re: Window History Placement

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:22, Sasha Vasko wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>
> > You mean USPosition vs PPosition ? IIRC that was meant just as a way to
> > suppress interactive placement when -geometry was specified, but those fields are
> > almost universally ignored nowadays (and interactive placement is not common
> > anymore).
> 
> I would not be so sure about this. USPosition/PPosition are just as 
> usefull as they ever been, and I can envision quite a few user who would 
> get rather upset if interactive placement would disappear.
>

I don't know where I got the impression that USPosition would be
ignored. Maybe I misremembered the fact that you can configure fvwm to
ignore it. 
 
> What is exactly a reason why USPosition could not be used by the 
> application to prevent Window Manager from overriding its position ?

Very nice if USPosition can be used for that, but this is a different
question from whether the geometry should be saved and reused for future
instance of the window (without USPosition).

Matthias