I just got notice that Java bug 4401846 is closed. This is the bug with Java window placement.
You can read the commentary at: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4401846.html If I understand what they are saying, the fix will be in Java 1.5 and its solved this way: AWT already can deal with both WM behaviors but need a way to detect if the running WM implements strict ICCCM behavior or StaticGravity behavior. AWT already tries to detect some of the WMs that are known to implement the StaticGravity behavior, but this approach doesn't scale well. Unfortunately there's no standardized (neither de-jure, nor de-facto) way to detect at run time which behavior the window manager implements. We propose to introduce an environment variable _JAVA_AWT_WM_STATIC_GRAVITY that a user can set to indicate that his window manager implements StaticGravity behavior. This will be available in J2SE 1.5. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
