[22862] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.7:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 9 16:22:44 2003
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 16:22:41 -0400
Message-Id: <200307092022.h69KMf3I031250@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: dryfoo@MIT.EDU
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200307081945.h68JjmX7009744@thelonious.mit.edu>
> At login, my Gnome panel does not automagically appear in the
> lower-left corner. Instead, it is an outline that has to be
> click-launched, as if the X -geometry setting were lost. No matter
> where on the screen it's launched, the first time I click-to-expand
> the panel it moves to the correct location.
I think the panel has simply become more dependent on the user using a
GNOME windowmanager (in our environment, that pretty much means
sawfish). The panel seems to show up in the right place on its own if
the user is not using any window manager at all, but it doesn't seem
to set the normal window hints.
Because we don't build our own panel binary on Linux, we can't really
fix this annoyance easily on that platform. But I will look into
figuring out what's wrong and getting a fix into a future upstream
version of gnome-panel.
