From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set-frame-position - is it a buf? Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:55:41 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123343936 24289 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2005 15:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 15:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 06 17:58:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1R4A-0007D2-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:58:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1R74-0001nX-Km for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:01:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!7d2d8a70!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cfed6899f3157fc310dcee606f638f95 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net Original-X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1123343741 cfed6899f3157fc310dcee606f638f95 (Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:55:41 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:55:41 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132960 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28480 I've just been tracking down weird fvwm2 window position problems and found that if you upgrade to the latest development version you can put a style entry in your fvwm config file to get fvwm to behave in the old non-standard way that every other window manager behaves (apparently the ICCCM standards have been "improved" to resolve window position ambiguities in exactly the opposite way that virtually all window managers interpreted the ambiguity - that's what I love about standards bodies - either that or the standard was improved to be so much more ambiguous that the fvwm2 developers can't understand it and are misinterpreting it - I'm not sure which :-) In my config file, the relevant bit is: Style * MoveByProgramMethod UseGravity -- >>==>> The *Best* political site >>==+ email: Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net icbm: Delray Beach, FL | Free Software and Politics <<==+