[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Apr 19 11:48:48 2005]:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:28:58AM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Richard Levitte via RT, and lo! it spake thus:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Apr 19 08:37:01 2005]:
> > >
> > > Well, speaking purely for myself, I *LIKE* the predictable placement.
> >
> > Do you actually get that behavior with 3.7a6? Anthony's complaint
> > is that two xterms in a row will have them at the exact same spot.
>
> I just fired up 8 terms in a row ("xterm & ; xterm & ; <etc>") and
> they cascaded normally. I s'pose there could be a race condition in
> the timing somewhere that my machine isn't fast enough to hit, but
> I've never seen it happen, even when popping up 20 or 30 cities at a
> time in Freeciv.
>
> I think Anthony just abused ctwm in a previous life, and it's taking
> revenge now 8-}
I think you're being too hard on Anthony, especially because I found out what's
happening. If you have RandomPlacement and DontMoveOff in your .ctwmrc, you
will see a similar behavior.
Basically, I'd say that the code to handle DontMoveOff in AddWindow
(add_window.c) is completely and utterly bogus. For any window that's much
smaller than the screen, the placement will be +50+50, period. That's
astonishingly wacked. I do recall fiddling with that code, so I'm probably the
one to blame as well...
/Richard
