Pavel Sanda wrote: > Hi Kim, > > Sometimes the new window of the app which was launched > ends up on different area then the one which is active. > > Lets say you have 2x2 desktop and you are in area (0,1), > and window ends up in area (0,0). Not big deal, but if > you are in area (0,0) the window becomes invisible and > there is no way how to reach it, it's only the animation > which gives you idea that the window is travelling > somewhere to nonexistent region of (0,-1). > > It is not related to some particular app, happens for many > different ones, there is no setting to rememeber (in particular > position) the window. But my general settings are set to store > the last position _within_ the area. > Which general setting are you talking about here? The application/toolkits, e16's remember function, ...?
> It is not clear to me how to reliably reproduce that behaviour. > My impression, though, is that when application is exiting > and you manage to quickly switch to another area before the > window is actually destoyed, its position is stored with > reference to newly selected area. > > Are there any checks within the code which would > - either check before storing location that you are within > the coordinates of single area (0<x<area_size) > - or check whether the window is launched within the current > area, or at least within the current desktop (which is > actually the main problem of this glitch). > There are checks that try to do the right thing wrt. keeping windows on-screen in various scenarios but windows shouldn't always be kept on-screen. e16 doesn't deal with in which desktop/area an application is launched, placement is evaluated when the application appears (requests to be mapped). > This issue is around for a long time (years). > I don't see this problem myself but I'll poke around a bit. It would be nice if there was a reliable way to reproduce it though :) /Kim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
