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Binary package hint: pidgin

Steps: open a chat window, move it, close it, then open another chat window
Expected: the window would spawn in the same place as it was closed
Observed: it spawns in the top left corner of the screen

I updated to pidgin 2.5.2 a few days ago on Hardy and the symptom
manifested itself. Before (with 2.4.1 I believe) the chat windows would
correctly remember their position, and spawn in the bottom right of the
screen (where I like them). Having to move every single new conversation
over to the bottom right is, if the pun is excused, a drag. I am not
running compiz; just plain metacity.

The pidgin devs have indeicated at
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7172 that they consider this a window
manager issue and that they intentionally caused the regression by
disabling the position-remembering code, which was what caused it to
previously work. I have no idea whether metacity or some other already
instealled tool is capable of doing this with metacity (some preliminary
googling suggests not) or if re-enabling pidgin's position-remembering
code is the best option.

** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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New chat windows unconditionally spawn in top left
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311615
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