Re: changing hidden window position

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mihai Bazon <mishoo infoiasi ro> writes:
> I'm using gdk_window_move to set a window's position.  My problem
> is that the window must be visible before doing that.
>
> For instance (erroneous code):
>
>   GtkWidget *win = gtk_window_new(..);
>   ...
>   gdk_window_move(win->window, x, y);
>   gtk_widget_show(win);
>
> But it works like this:
>
>   GtkWidget *win = gtk_window_new(..);
>   ...
>   gtk_widget_show(win); /* show the window first */
>   gdk_window_move(win->window, x, y);
>
> This results in unpleasant flicker.  How to solve this?

Use gtk_widget_set_uposition() to set the position.

Havoc