(0,0) placement of new windows - sometimes

[Scott Tringali]

Ivan Skytte Jørgensen wrote:

> I experience that nedit sometimes (20%-60% of the time) ignores any placement 
> hints from the window manager.

Actually, it's the other way around.  The window manager reads the 
placement hints from the application.

We actually (go to great lengths) to disable the placement hint when 
it's 0, 0 to avoid this situation.  If I'm on :0.0, I verify this with 
xprop:

WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                 user specified location: 281, 0
                 program specified size: 678 by 831
                 program specified minimum size: 34 by 90
                 program specified resize increment: 7 by 13
                 program specified base size: 27 by 77
                 window gravity: NorthWest

Note the lack of "program specified location":

For some reason, when I display on :0.1, the behavior is different, even 
though the code is the same:

WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                 program specified location: 0, 0
                 program specified size: 587 by 571
                 program specified minimum size: 34 by 64
                 program specified resize increment: 7 by 13
                 program specified base size: 27 by 51
                 window gravity: NorthWest

I suspect a Motif bug here and we'll have to install another workaround.

KDE seems smart enough to ignore that bad hint, but maybe sometimes it 
isn't.  Try control > Desktop > Window-Specific Settings > New. Detect 
NEdit.  On workarounds, select "Ignore Requested Geometry" and set to 
Force, checked.  Does this help?