[5115] in Athena Bugs
X11R4: geometry specs and window manager borders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Jun 8 04:40:33 1990
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 04:39:47 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: Raeburn@MIT.Edu
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[4974]
Date: Wed, 23 May 90 09:23:55 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
The current mechanism for dealing with geometry specs interacts poorly
with the borders put up by window managers. When I supply a geometry spec
of "+0-0", I mean "at the lower left corner", not "at the lower left
corner, plus whatever offsets to the left and _down_ that the window
manager provides".
Actually, a mechanism to deal properly with this *does* exist --
check out the stuff about "window gravity" in the ICCC.
As a matter of fact, mwm appears to deal with this fine. I just
opened up 4 xterm windows in the four corners of my screen, with mwm
borders enabled, and they all popped up with the borders completely
on-screen and exactly touching the corners.
Now, perhaps what you're really reporting is the inability of one
*particular* window manager in x11r4 to deal correctly with window
gravity. If so, could you be a bit more specific so I have something
concrete to report to the X Consortium?
jik
