Re: Geometry issues ...

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

On 4 Jul 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> 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.

	If X session management is used it can. Don't have the entire
protocol in mind actually but somewhere between an __unique__ id is
generated for each window. This unique id generated by the session manager 
can be used to restore windows. You might try this together with 
gnome-session and icewm. Works perfectly.


Ciao,
Mathias
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