[linux-audio-user] QJackCtl window position consistency?

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:46 -0500, Rick Wright wrote:
> 
> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> 
> > Rick Wright wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I'd like the qjackctl windows (i.e. the control window, messages, 
> >> connections, status) to open for a subsequent executation in the same 
> >> screen locations as I had them at shutdown from the last execution.  
> >> Is this possible?  I can't seem to find an option for this.
> >>
> >> All (and only those) windows that were visible from the previous 
> >> execution do indeed appear on the subsequent application run (which 
> >> is good), but the window positioning appears to be forgotten.
> >>
> >> Rui, if this is not currently supported, would it be possible to add 
> >> this feature?
> >>
> >
> > Window positioning persistence is already featured and is default 
> > behavior, for quite some time. AFAICS its been ever since ;). Problem 
> > is that behavior may vary, with some glitches depending on your 
> > particular WM. It is well known, at least to me, that window positions 
> > aren't remembered very well if you stick to use the WM close button on 
> > those window titles, usually the ones labeled as [X]. OTOH if you use 
> > qjackctl main window control buttons, to toggle child window 
> > visibility and to quit application, all seems to work just fine ;) or 
> > so I believe and been told.
> >
> >
> 
> I am finding inconsistency in the window positioning persistence.  
> Sometimes the windows appear in the same position, sometimes they 
> don't.  This has been tested using only the QJC main window control 
> buttons as recommended above.
> 
> Leaving the windows open (only testing using 4 of them: main, status, 
> messages, connections) upon shutdown (quit on main window) and 
> restarting QJC sometimes gives the same locations and sometimes not, but 
> it seems that the windows don't like the presence of other windows (i.e. 
> an xterm from which to start QJC!) and the most prevalent offender is 
> the main window.  Actually, it seems that upon the first restart of QJC, 
> the positions are remembered, but without moving any windows, a second 
> quit/restart results in some windows appearing cascaded from the top 
> left of the desktop.  Window sizes are always remembered.
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this?

What desktop environment and window manager are you using and which
version?

Lee