On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 01:18:17AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 04:23:35PM +0000, Hegel3DReloaded wrote:
> > I have opened an issue about PositionPlacement Center style: after
> > the recent changes, in multi monitor mode, this centers window
> > split between left and right monitor, while with latest fvwm3
> > release, this was not the case. Using dv/pager-noaspect where the
> > current issues have been resolved couple days ago. It is
> > repeatable on the current master.
>
> Actually that never worked, it only looked like it did - by
> accident.
>
> When __pl_position_get_pos_simple() enconters a "center" argument
> it replaces it with DEFAULT_PLACEMENT_POS_CENTER_STRING which is
> defined to "screen $[w.screen] 50-50w 50-50w" as of commit id
> 71c57858ffebdede86c2097464339b65b5742864:
>
> >    PositionPlacement: include screen for Center
> >
> >    When using "PositionPlacement Center", take into account the screen the
> >    window is on, so it's centered appropriately.
> >
> >    Fixes #211
>
> This string is passed to GetMoveArguments() for interpretation.
> However, $[w.screen] never gets expanded because that line is not
> passed through the parser.  FScreenGetScrRect() later looks for a
> screen with the name "$[w.screen]", finds non and falls back to
> the global monitor for placement (since a recent patch) but seems
> to have used the "current" monitor before.
>
> One way to fix this woud be to replace "$[w.screen]" with "c" for
> the current screen, but that ignores the window's screen if
> specified.  Also, some places of the code expect screens specified
> as "@g", " @c", "@p" while others use "g", "c" and "p".

Should be fixed now.

However, I find it really annoying that screens now have to be
specified by name.

  style xterm startsonscreen DVI-I-1

is completely non-portable.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt

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