>>>>> William Gallafent writes:
William> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Michael Emmel wrote:
>> Actually java works well under KDE some bugs under
>> Windowmaker major bugs under Enlightenment .
William> Window positioning seems to be broken under KDE too, in my
William> experience. For example (first one I could think of),
William> when susefax (Java front end for Hylafax that ships with
William> SuSE) starts up, the window is placed in the very top left
William> corner of the screen. This means the titlebar is obscured
William> by the icon bar thingy that I have running along the top of
William> the screen. All other windows are placed smartly by the
If we let the wm place the frame (we had some versions that allowed
that), people complain that it breaks their programs on Linux. So
we're back to the standard behavior, (0,0) is the correct position in
your case.
William> windowmanager (kwm of course) ... but Java ones don't obey
William> the wm's placement policy. This puts me in agreement with
William> the "Java tries to do too much that is the responsibility
William> of the wm" camp. When a new window appears on my screen, I
William> want it to appear as I have defined in the window manager
William> configuration. Java windows do not do this, which is broken
William> behaviour IMO.
You won't see the 'correct' behavior without an API change.
There's an RFE at the JDC:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4102292.html
Juergen
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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