Bug 106239 - On giant displays, place windows near the pointer
On giant displays, place windows near the pointer
Status: NEW
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: future
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
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Blocks: 155460
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Reported: 2003-02-16 18:01 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2009-03-08 05:40 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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GNOME target: ---
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Patch to add manual placement policy (14.90 KB, patch)
2004-11-09 14:33 UTC, Ron Yorston 		rejected Details | Diff | Review
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Description Havoc Pennington 2003-02-16 18:01:50 UTC 
Two items:

 - when doing placement with Xinerama, should prefer to place on the 
   current Xinerama

 - if the display is one huge monitor (thousands of pixels), 
   it might be nice to keep windows near the mouse pointer. 
   though the threshold for at what size to do this is going to be 
   a little bit arbitrary.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-02-25 23:03:46 UTC 
See also bug 105133
Comment 2 Rob Adams 2003-05-27 04:03:18 UTC 
is there anyone that actually has such super miracle displays?  Or
should we just close this bug, do you think?
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2003-05-31 03:44:24 UTC 
Yeah, this was a real request. There are various organizations 
that have big maps on the wall and stuff like that.
Comment 4 Ron Yorston 2004-11-09 14:33:01 UTC 
Created attachment 33584 [details] [review]
Patch to add manual placement policy

This patch implements manual placement of new windows.	It has also been
backported to metacity 2.4.55-6 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3:  RPM and SRPM
available here http://www.tigress.co.uk/rmy/metacity/index.html
Comment 5 Rob Adams 2004-11-09 16:41:16 UTC 
Any patch for this would have to be smart enough to work automatically.  No
placement preferences in metacity please.
Comment 6 Rob Adams 2005-05-26 20:17:01 UTC 
updating per comments
Comment 7 Thomas Thurman 2009-03-08 05:40:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
>  - when doing placement with Xinerama, should prefer to place on the 
>    current Xinerama

this was later split out into bug 511562, so the present bug is only about "giant" displays.
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