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Bug 555896 - toggling contact list visibility (via systray icon, for example) will reposition window on left
toggling contact list visibility (via systray icon, for example) will reposit...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 486476
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 586424 586679 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-10-11 09:36 UTC by Saulius Menkevičius
Modified: 2009-10-25 13:22 UTC
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Description Saulius Menkevičius 2008-10-11 09:36:41 UTC 
Dunno if this is a metacity's problem or that of empathy, but i get this everytime.

Basically what it appears to be with this one is that window position is not saved when contact list window is hidden, and next time it gets shown it is (re)positioned by metacity to upper left corner, below the caption bar of the previous active window. As the usual position for this window for me is left side of the screen, this is annoying  (i.e. before empathy i had been using pidgin which did the right thing w.r.t. this).

Other information:
Comment 1 François Kooman 2008-10-11 10:33:17 UTC 
Confirm on Fedora Rawhide: 

empathy-2.24.0-1.fc10.x86_64
metacity-2.24.0-2.fc10.x86_64
compiz-0.7.6-11.fc10.x86_64

Same problem with Compiz.

See also RH Bugzilla for a screencast: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465278
Comment 2 Alexander Hunziker 2008-10-15 13:08:02 UTC 
+1 Confirm on Ubuntu Intrepid beta with Metacity.
Comment 3 Alexander Hunziker 2009-03-04 13:04:59 UTC 
Information from the corresponding bug on Launchpad, which may be useful:

Empathy remembers the window position just fine after startup. Problems seem to appear after one of the accounts disconnected for some reason.
Comment 4 Dusan Maliarik 2009-05-19 10:09:38 UTC 
I can confirm this on Ubuntu jaunty, empathy 2.26.1, and it is pretty annoying. Thanks for fixing this in the current stable 2.26 release. That would be really great
Comment 5 Dusan Maliarik 2009-05-22 09:15:20 UTC 
Still there in 2.27.1.1
Comment 6 Xavier Claessens 2009-05-22 09:24:32 UTC 
This is most probably a WM bug.
Comment 7 Dusan Maliarik 2009-05-22 09:32:24 UTC 
You shouldn't be expecting WM to save window the position for you
Comment 8 Xavier Claessens 2009-05-22 09:40:25 UTC 
The WM must restore the position, and metacity does most of the time. But sometimes it doesn't. This is a WM bug, I'm 99% sure.

tbh, I'm sick of all applications doing different work arounds for each WM.
Comment 9 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2009-06-19 19:24:45 UTC 
*** Bug 586424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Adam Etienne 2009-06-20 10:05:02 UTC 
confirmed, and it's the only soft doing that
Comment 11 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2009-06-22 20:02:41 UTC 
*** Bug 586679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Alessio Bolognino 2009-10-03 20:29:50 UTC 
For the record the bug is still here:

compiz - 1:0.8.3+git20090917-0ubuntu4
empathy - 2.28.0-0ubuntu2+ppa9.10+1
metacity - 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Comment 13 Xavier Claessens 2009-10-25 13:22:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 486476 ***