Re: Use-positions-properly-dammit hint

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 18:17, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  this is basically a followup to the "USPosition vs. PPosition with Virtual
> viewports" thread, this time with a patch :).
>
>  To quickly sum up: Some apps abused PPosition, so WMs started to ignore
> PPosition. So apps moved onto abusing USPosition. So basically now it's a
> big mess with many windows having PPosition|USPosition and WMs having no
> idea if the app just happens to be stupid or if it really has a good reason
> for that.
>
>  The solution :) :
>
> _NET_WM_FULL_PLACEMENT [*]
...
>  Comment, improvements, objections? I already have some patches for
> Xinerama support developed that use this hint (so there's a working
> implementation :) ).

 If there are no objections I'll commit next week. I'd still like a better 
name though.

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