From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: positioning of window in X no more possible Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:46:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <0E8DC666-96D6-4436-BC60-6BF9DF6A0EE3@Web.DE> <87pr92ofmr.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254750096 29535 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2009 13:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 15:41:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Munoh-0001LM-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Munoc-0004hM-QL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:41:26 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19ekOrHTM/h6BTnRPw0KiRceDxM8lN8qt5qrw9Ybl9f/lYDbpG5bAAslT0Oy2A/Vdhh8hi9z01iqTJTR0oUdxDcrZkt7u5HnWSNH3xFmyv4w44/XNVkxHKmTbCz3wtq1Y3g4jcaYf9eaA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:46:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/nGIq79xySZ/zIOwY0ce0XGUhSLhlq7uTLIZlqQWdapQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:YlR7+4ar3CuREqaj+AfSkBIMgm0= sha1:1PgHeh369qz3bU/xgpo5AWcwbQw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173589 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68684 Archived-At: Peter Münster writes: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Tim X wrote: > >> Its been a while since I looked at geometry specifications. Last time I >> looked into it, there was some variation in how geometry values are >> interpreted for window managers that also provide virtual >> windows/workspaces. > >> > >> What window manager are you using? > > Hello Tim, > > I'm using fvwm (version 2.5.26). Now I've tested KDE and failsafe-session > (no window manager at all), and indeed: no problem! So it's the fvwm > window manager, that ignores the position hint. > > So thanks for your answer! I'm going to test the latest fvwm version now. Fvwm ignores the positioning hint when you tell it to. Style * !UsePPosition -or- Style * NoUsePPosition You can use the BugOpts ExplainWindowPlacement command to get details on what Fvwm is doing during placement.