Re: Need a synthetic ConfigureNotify clarification/extension in the spec (and I don't know what it should be)

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> Bradley Hughes filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322840
> about Metacity not sending a synthetic ConfigureNotify in response to
> windows being mapped with either the PPosition or UPosition hints.  I
> tried reading up further to see if we had missed any other places
> where a ConfigureNotify should be sent, and found that while ICCCM
> section 4.1.5 is clear about what should happen in response to
> ConfigureRequest events (which we implement exactly), it does not
> appear to specify what should happen for MapRequests and the EWMH
> doesn't offer any relevant clarifications. In fact, since the ICCCM
> doesn't appear to require any synthetic ConfigureNotify events in
> response to MapRequests, it appears that Metacity's behavior is
> correct.

It doesn't require synthesizing an event in response to the MapRequest
per se, but 4.2.3 requires a ConfigureNotify event whenever the wm moves
a window without resizing it. In the example program, the client creates
a window at 100,100, but when metacity maps it, it also moves it to
101,123 to make room for the frame. So yes, I'd say you owe him a
ConfigureNotify.

-- Dan