Circa 2000-Jul-24 09:05:19 -0500 dixit Jon Pennington:
: * Why doesn't Netscape honor bb's built-in window placement controls?
: Regardless of the session.screen?.windowPlacement value, any new
: Netscape window tries to open at somewhere around +5+5, which is a bit
: annoying. I haven't noticed this with any other apps, but I have a very
: small set of apps I deal with ;).
Netscape (along with many other Motif apps) is known to be broken with
respect to window placement, because it sets the PPosition
(program-specified position) hint in a deprecated fashion (see the man
page for XSetWMNormalHints(3)). Every window manager that i'm aware of
has trouble dealing with such broken applications. Many of them resort
to providing an option to ignore the PPosition hint. This might be a
good idea for Blackbox as well.
--
jim knoble | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.jmknoble.cx/
