Re: gtk+ 1.2.10, Gtk-Perl 0.7008 -- how the heck do I set initial window position?

[Joe Smith <jes martnet com>]

Jonathan I. Kamens wrote:
> ...
> I'm coming from Xt & Xaw programming, so I find it hard to understand
> why this should be a novel idea -- it's rudimentary functionality
> there.

Well, I'm going to display my ignorance to everybody in the hope that I 
learn something.

I thought this was always a 'hint' in X.  I.e., the application 
programmer could only _request_ a position from the window manager and 
the window manager was not guaranteed to honor the request.  Maybe I'm 
confused: maybe it was the 'correct' way to program for X, but it was 
only convention and you could guarantee a position if you had to.

At any rate, I've certainly had applications that wanted to do their own 
positioning be ignored by some WMs.  Blech.

<Joe