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Bug 129919 - Places some non-GTK2 Dialogs between Xinerama Screens
Places some non-GTK2 Dialogs between Xinerama Screens
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-23 21:15 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Sebastien Bacher 2003-12-23 21:15:52 UTC 
This bug was originally reported in the Debian BTS:
http://bugs.debian.org/220771

"Metacity places dialogs/windows of GTK 1.2 apps (e.g. unison-gtk, easytag)
exactly centered on the Display, in my case exactly between my two
equally-sized Xinerama screens."
Comment 1 Rob Adams 2003-12-23 21:37:52 UTC 
metacity doesn't place those dialogs; these are windows that have
either the PPosition or USPosition hints set.  Unfortunately, there's
really not anything metacity can do to fix this, since we've found
that not honoring these hints causes a good many applications, such as
java and other proprietary toolkits, to break.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-12-24 04:34:56 UTC 
If the answer isn't clear, the problem is that the app
specifies/forces the position overlapping two screens. So you need to
file bugs vs. these apps.