14 Sep
2014
14 Sep
'14
5:32 p.m.
On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 08:00 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Yesno ;).
Even when using the same monitor and the same WM and I didn't move the
windows within one session, they sometimes open as wanted and sometimes
e.g. under the panel.
Indeed, I sometimes switch between WMs/DEs and sometimes I use another
monitor with a different screen resolution, but the GIMP screenshot was
done after using GIMP within the same openbox session, using the same
monitor and resolution, without moving the GIMP window. I just closed it
and opened GIMP sometime later again and the position changed.
The JWM issue with QjackCtl windows is a little bit different, sometimes
a QjackCtl child window opens and covers all other windows on all 4 work
spaces.
I very seldom experienced such an issue when using Xfce4 or GNOME2, but
for JWM and openbox such issues are not that seldom, it happens several
times a day.
On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 00:07 +1000, Simon Wise
wrote:
Qjackctl saves it's window positions when it exits. It then trys to open
them in the same position the next time it is opened. If you always use
the same WM, DE, and application positions it works well. If you switch
WMs maybe not so well. If you are trying different WMs, what makes sense
in one may not make sense in another. This is not the WM fault or setting.
It is not application's fault, though it may be the applications settings.
It is just the way of things using more than one WM. Right now I am using
a very small screen and the best window position changes depending on what
I am doing... so I am noticing this as well. The window does not go in
open area, but where it was last time. There will be others which ask for awkward
positions in a way that
Openbox does not fix up.
I guess this is the culprit I experience with JWM and openbox. Some apps
always open properly, just a few apps, for audio at least Rakarrak and
"child" windows of QjackCtl" sometimes (not always) open in a bad way.