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Re: Does metacity allow, "first fit" instead of "20 pixels down and to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 16 12:31:09 2005
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:30:55 -0400
Message-Id: <200506161630.j5GGUt2I024931@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
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>
> I'm used to having my new windows pop up in the biggest empty space
> on the screen not on top of the window I am using.
Rereading this, I don't understand "the biggest empty space... not on
top of the window I am using". If it's an empty space, isn't it
"not on top of the window I am using" as a matter of course?
> This is a settable parameter in Sawfish, "First fit" I think.
Incidentally, Metacity does use first fit to place windows if it can,
and then resorts to a cascade if it can't.
