Jason Dagit wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tim Wescott <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Is there a way to tell, under Gnome or Wine, where an application thinks >> it has it's windows open? >> >> I've got a Windows app that I'm trying to run under Wine, and it seems >> to have lost track of where it's windows are. Comments from the >> developer kind of obliquely point to this being an issue under Windows, >> too, so I'm not sure that it's specifically a Wine/Gnome problem other >> than maybe that environment offering more opportunities for confusing >> things. >> >> While I'm waiting for the developer to get back to me, I'm wondering if >> there's a log someplace that I can look in to see where the windows are >> going, and if there's any way that I can reach out and hook them back >> into the visible space. >> > > > I think office 97 and office 2000 used to have an issue where sometimes they > would save a negative window position to the registry. This means that on > the next startup some of the windows would show in the taskbar, but the > window itself was placed northwest of your viewable desktop. The solution I > used to use was to right click on the window in the taskbar, select move > from the menu then press the down and right arrow keys until the window > appeared on screen. > > Windows certainly can tell you their (x,y) location. I don't fully > understand your question without seeing it. > The application spawns child windows; these are the ones that seem to be getting lost. The main application shows up (although it doesn't take well to being minimized and restored -- it wants to shrink down to 0,0).
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