GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 72899
Ignores --geometry command line option
Last modified: 2014-08-26 19:52:30 UTC
From Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/136092 The X option for geometry is defined as -geometry <geometry> where <geometry> is roughly of the form DXxDY+X+Y. Galeon uses the non-standard forms --geometry=<geometry> -g=<geometry> It also appears to ignore the origin parts of the geometry.
About the name I'm not sure if that can be done with popt but I'll take a look. The origin one can be both a bug in gnome_parse_geometry or we could be using it correctly.
http://bugs.debian.org/162585 gives more information about this http://bugs.debian.org/185506 also reports problems
*** Bug 98789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 125165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Basically we ignore the geometry setting at the moment.
So is this going to get fixed soon? Please? :)
What would it take to fix this? Please??????????
*** Bug 322621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It is more complicated with galeon 2.0.0, because sawfish (for example) can't detect window name or group and store it's settings. For galeon 1.3.X sawfish can remember position and other window settings automatically, bud with galeon 2.0.0 can't. :( Please, can anybody fix a geometry command line switch?
sawfish should be able to store the settings by looking at the 'role' attribute on the windows ....
Yes, but new galeon's role is: ^galeon-window-5846d8f6$ Each use can modify this to ^galeon-window- or something similiar, but it is not easy. Other window managers like metacity can do this. My favorite distribution has no other gnome window managers like metacity and I must use it. Installation of sawfish not easy again and geometry settings is only one thing, which requires this. Are there some thing, why geometry setting can't be fixed in galeon? Can somebody remove "--geometry" and "-g" flags from galeon's help, if they can't be implemented?
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list