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

[pirrone]

Rick Wright wrote:
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> Rick Wright wrote:
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>> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
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>>> Rick Wright wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Rui, if this is not currently supported, would it be possible to 
>>>> add this feature?
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Can anyone else reproduce this?
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>> Rick
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> I should add that toggling the windows on/off using the buttons on the 
> main window gives mixed position persistence results.  I found that 
> only the "messages" window (of those I am using) consistently comes 
> back in the top-left cascaded position.  The others' position do persist.
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> Rick
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Negative on that too Rick.  Toggling them has no effect on position.