Re: Geometry issues ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Frank Worsley <fworsley shaw ca> writes: 
> Also, I recall Havoc saying a while back that currently the WM can't
> reliably restore window sizes because of some problem that I can't
> really remember now and that this requires some new standard or
> something. Anyway, he said that until then apps should be responsible to
> restore their windows correctly. Is that correct Havoc?

The WM does not have a way to identify which windows are "the same"
window for purposes of restoring window attributes.  So you can
e.g. accidentally maximize a mozilla dialog thinking it's a web
browser window.

Havoc