(0,0) placement of new windows - sometimes

[Ivan Skytte Jørgensen]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 17:22, Scott Tringali wrote:
> 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
...
> For some reason, when I display on :0.1, the behavior is different, even
> though the code is the same:

It is always "program specified location: 0, 0" on my machine. Even on the 
correctly placed windows. I just checked on another machine. Same problem 
with kde3.5.5/no-xinerama

> 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?

I tend to like the initial size of the window (which is never wrong), and 
instead did:
	Geometry -> placement -> Force, Smart.


Thanks,
  Ivan