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Bug 84984 - Remember window position/dimensions
Remember window position/dimensions
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81802
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: EWMH specification
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-12 09:16 UTC by Rasmus
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Rasmus 2002-06-12 09:16:27 UTC 
If it's possible I'd like metacity to remember; position, state and
dimension of an application window. Then the window will re-appear exactly
as it was when you closed it.

If it's not possible to retain the state, the saved dimension should be
that of the normal window-state, not it's maximized dimension/position.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-06-12 15:46:18 UTC 
Currently the answer is that applications are responsible for doing
this. See lengthy thread on wm-spec-list@gnome.org sometime in the
last few months.
Comment 2 JeyaSudha 2002-06-24 10:44:03 UTC 
Itz working fine with the latest build
Comment 3 Rodney Dawes 2002-09-22 13:17:34 UTC 
Metacity should do this. Relying on applications to do it is just
broken, as virtually nothing does. It also doesn't work correctly all
the time, even when they do. This behavior is the right way for doing
default window placement. Otherwise, you just get random or cascade,
both of which are horrible and broken concepts anyway. In terms of
usability and probably accessibility, this seems the best way to do
things, to keep people from being confused when their window pops up
in some random, useless, cascaded location.
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-22 14:53:02 UTC 
You're missing the point; metacity _can't_ do it, there isn't enough
information available. That's why this bug is marked against the 
extend-the-specification component.
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-24 18:24:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81802 ***