[8357] in Athena Bugs
Re: rt 7.2P: vtwm.gamma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Oct 7 18:10:48 1991
To: douzzer@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, vtwm-bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: vtwm-bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 91 18:11:34 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
What were you trying to do?
Set the geometry of the virtual desktop.
What's wrong:
A negative specification, i.e. -15+200, acts like --15+200.
This means that it moves the right edge 15 pixels past the right edge
of the screen. The behaviour is inverted.
What should have happened:
You know what should have happened, of course.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Should be an easy problem. I ain't no X programmer, I can tell
you that.
BTW, the problem is easily worked around by using --15+200. Like I
said, the behaviour is actually inverted.
All the machine info in the header is utterly irrelevant. I built
vtwm.gamma myself on a SPARCstation 1 in LCS. But the bug is the same
on bonafide athena platforms also.
Dan, vtwm.gamma is not an athena program, it is in the windowmanagers
locker. You should send all bugs with vtwm.gamma to vtwm-bugs.
Now, since I happen to read bugs, and I maintain vtwm.gamma, maybe I
can help. I tried using
VirtualDesktop "100x100-15+200" 32
And the v.d. came up right where I expected it to, with 15 pixels
between it and the right edge of the screen. What you describe sounds
like a bug which existed in earlier versions of vtwm.gamma, but has
been fixed by now. Where are you running vtwm.gamma from?
(If you reply to this mail, send it *only* to vtwm-bugs, not to marc
or bugs.)
Marc
