Can U Add a option in a list of active windows to set pos @ (0,0). Almost, the problem is solved with bad apps, and we can let they go off-screen, but whith a way to catch up the ear of app and say: "Come on boy, keep it on-screen" :D
Greetings QliX=D! [aka Ezequiel Brizuela] -----Mensaje original----- De: Carsten Haitzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Lunes, 22 de Agosto de 2005 02:57 Para: Ehud Shabtai CC: enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Asunto: Re: [E-devel] E17 crashes when moving for xinerama to a single screen On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:07:31 +0300 Ehud Shabtai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > You're right this problem shows only for some applications such as > firefox, qgis, eclair. > There are actually two annoying problems. The first is that since they > remember their geometry, when I try to open them on one screen, they > may open on another. The second problem is the one with being lost > (when not using dual screens). yeah - but this woudl be what i call "badly written apps" they shoudl accoutnf or screen res/size changes while they may nto be runing and adjust if they insist on remembering their own stuff, if not, they should leave the wm to it whihc likely knwos a lot better than the app ever will. i know app writes dont want to dothis as there are wm's that are dumb and dont do things well. e17 isnt that gerat yet either. i'd like it to auto-rememebr stuff like this for you as much as possible. right now its a manual rememebr process to set it up. it's mroe of a test to see what i need to do to the remember stuff to make ti work best. > Can't E just relocate the lost window instead of putting it in the > lost window list? there are valid reasons an app could want a window off screen. i am sure later we can add options like "NEVER allow a window to be off screen by app request" etc. but for now we're obeying an apps requests -0 no matter how stupid they are. it's a good way to hilight stupid apps that need fixing too. either they need to stop remembering their own geometry and leave it to the wm entirely, or get a lot smarter at doing it themsleves instead of doing it badly. > Thanks, > > Ehud. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
