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Re: Does metacity allow, "first fit" instead of "20 pixels down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 16 11:57:39 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1118936110.12116.11.camel@tokata.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:57:29 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:35 -0400, Bill Cattey wrote:
> This is a settable parameter in Sawfish, "First fit" I think.
> I could find no such parameter in the GNOME online help nor in the GNOME
> control center. It would be really disappointing to discover that the
> world adopted a newer window manager that forgot how to do a diverse set
> of default positionings.
Metacity's philosophy is not to provide a "diverse set" of anything,
really. So, it's not surprising at all that it wouldn't have an option
to do this.
