On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > It drifts right horizontally, with no vertical change, for me on both
> > HP-UX running HP's CDE and Solaris 2.4 running Motif. Generally,
> > Motif-style WMs try to impose some "drifting" on you on the theory that
> > you don't want apps coming right up on top of each other....
> >
> > || Ken Bowen Applied Logic Systems, Inc. PO Box 180,
> > ||==== Voice: +1 (617)965-9191 Newton Centre,
> > || FAX: +1 (617)965-1636 MA 02159 USA
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> Its still confusing, though, why the geometry info repositions right, and why
> the toplevels reposition right when hidden. My window manager normally tries
> to place toplevels in any large enough empty space, then positions "randomly"
> if that fails. I'm not sure what its definition of random is though. In any
> case it definately doesn't start cascading windows when it runs out of empty
> space.
I've had frustrating experiences with Tk and window positioning under
Linux (which I use for Visual Tcl development). I've found that killing
~/.vtclrc and restarting Visual Tcl will sometimes make Tk happy.
This all arises from the use of "wm geometry" and "winfo geometry"
which return two different values: one which sometimes causes drift
and the other which always causes drift.
-stewart-
