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Bug 74307 - Stagger placement mode should use the workarea
Stagger placement mode should use the workarea
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Sawfish
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Window Manager
pre-1.3.x
Other other
: High normal
: 1.5.x
Assigned To: John Harper
John Harper
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-12 03:49 UTC by Jamie Zawinski
Modified: 2009-08-16 15:13 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jamie Zawinski 2002-03-12 03:49:37 UTC 
Package: sawfish
Severity: minor
Version: sawfish-0.38-ximian.5
Synopsis: placed windows overlap panel
Bugzilla-Product: sawfish
Bugzilla-Component: Window Manager

Description:
When I maximize windows, Sawfish knows to not make the windows large
enough that they hide my panel.

However, new windows are placed so that they do overlap the panel.

Using the "stagger" placement style, 32 pixel offset.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-03-11 22:49 -------

Unknown version unspecified in product sawfish. Setting version to "1.0".
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jsh@pixelslut.com.
Comment 1 Federico Mena Quintero 2002-05-21 23:56:40 UTC 
It doesn't pay attention to (calculate-workarea), so windows can
overlap the panel very easily.  Re-titling to that effect.
Comment 2 John Harper 2002-05-27 04:26:34 UTC 
I'd really like to remove the stagger placement mode (or at least mark
it "unsupported" or something)

Have you tried the top-left placement mode? That's very similar and
doesn't suffer from this bug
Comment 3 Jamie Zawinski 2002-05-27 04:42:36 UTC 
Yes, I have tried top-left, and I despise it.

I find that it's very important to me to be able to *predict* where
the next window will appear.  I find that top-left mostly puts it
somewhere I don't expect, and so I waste time looking around for it.
  
If I know where window 7 got placed, I know where window 8 is going to
appear (well, I know there are only two possible spots.)  That's not
true with any of the other window-placement options that sawfish
offers,  as far as I can determine.

I always have many windows on my screen, deeply stacked, so placement
methods that search for "open space" are pretty much indistinguishable
from "random" to me.  All the other placement methods try to be too
smart for their (my) own good.

However, I *do* want Sawfish to never place windows such that they
overlap the panel.  I don't really consider the panels to be part of
the desktop, but more as dashboards that are attached to the *outside
edge* of the desktop.
Comment 4 John Harper 2002-05-27 05:21:05 UTC 
OK, fair enough

This is fixed on cvs HEAD now