GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 155460
TRACKER: window placement bugs
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:09:42 UTC
This will be a tracker for window placement bugs, though I'm trying to remove those that are constraint related (those go in bug 155458). I will start this off in a minute by adding the following dependencies: 85523 provide method for re-placing ("organizing") windows already on desktop 106239 consider placing windows near the pointer (esp. for huge monitors) 112465 metacity override redirect menus appear on wrong screen w/ xinerama 124667 not honoring PPosition on dialogs? 126792 consider placing new windows to avoid the mru ones 138290 come up with good placement policy for UTILITY 145503 lots of windows on one screen causes appearance on other monitor 147384? upon session restore in changed resolution, scale windows 151818 consider placing new windows centered on the screen 153620 Applications appear on current workspace (vs. workspace launched on)
I searched for a while trying to find Rob's description of the current placement algorithm. Turns out it wasn't on bugzilla. I can easily find this bug in rationales.txt, so I'm going to add a link to it here, since it's at least slightly more than tangentially related. :) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-December/msg00354.html
Note that bug 304763 and bug 126792 have patches for testing various ideas.
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