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).

-- 
Tim Wescott
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