Re: E: netscape won't do manual placement - why?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

The PPosition is a hint that can be set on a window, so that when the
window is created the wm knows where to place it.  The comment in your
fvwm2rc says that emacs (not xemacs I suppose) sets this hint to (0,0),
so that emacs windows get places at the top left of the screen.  The
NoPPosition fvwm command tells fvwm to unconditionally ignore the hint.  I
suppose if you only want to ignore emacs's PPosition hint you could change
the line to:
  Style "Emacs" NoPPosition

As for getting enlightenment to do this, ask raster or the e mailing list.

James Henstridge.

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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, torben fjerdingstad wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:24:29PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> > Fvwm only does that if you set the NoPPosition option for a particular
> > window style.  If this is not set, fvwm will act like enlightenment does
> > currently.  I think the default config files for fvwm usually set this.
> 
> I think you have a point. The fvwm2rc.gnome-0.2 I used as a template
> actually has this:
> 
> #
> # NoPPosition instructs fvwm to ignore the PPosition field in window
> # geometry hints. Emacs annoyingly sets PPosition to (0,0)!
> #
> Style "*" NoPPosition
> 
> How do I configure enlightenment for that?
> 
> Actually I am allowed to manually place xemacs on enlightenment.
> 
> P.S. I don't know what NoPPosition means.
> 
> > > On 15 March, 1999 - torben fjerdingstad sent me these 1,3K bytes:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:35:15AM -0500, raster@redhat.com wrote:
> > > > > netscape - netscape asks specifically to be places at a certain
> > > > > location (8as do its popups) - thus E places them there. Manual
> > > > > placment is only available for windows that dont request specific
> > > > > locations.
> > > > 
> > > > Please don't let fvwm2 hear that. It does allow me to do manual
> > > > placement of all the netscape windows.
> > > > That is fvwm2-2.0.46-11.
> > > 
> > > Maybe the user doesn't want it, but it's the Correct Thing To Do(TM)
> > > according to the specs...
> > > 
> > > /Tomas
> > > -- 
> > > Tomas Ögren, stric@ing.umu.se, http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/
> 
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