Some of you have noticed that the key bindings for moving a window no longer
behave "properly".  First, this is not a bbkeys specific issue.  epistrophy is
also affected as would any other app which tried to directly move a window as
explained later.

During our work fixing some bugs it became clear that we were violating the
ICCCM with regards to configure requests from clients.  The ICCCM for those of
you who are not window manager authors is the specification for how clients and
window managers should interact in X.

When a configure request is received by the wm it is supposed to treat it
exactly like it would the request for a window's first display.  We were not
doing this and now we are.  So several apps behave better now (java, gnome,
etc).  For those interested in the nit and grit, we were not honoring window
gravity except at initial window creation.

However this broke bbeys and friends.  The bad news is these apps should have
been broken the whole time.  In otherwords, they were working because of a bug
in blackbox.  So we are working with the authors to come up with a new way to
allow the window movement keybindings.  This will require an upgrade of bbkeys
and/or the other tools.

Hopefully this will not take long and until then sorry for the inconvenience.

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