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From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Placing a window under X11R4
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.151812.27971@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 15:18:12 GMT
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|> > I am porting an X application from X11R3 to X11R4.  One of the
|> > problems I am encountering is getting the top-level window to place
|> > itself without the help of TWM.
|> 
|> This is entirely up to TWM.  If TWM decides that the user shall always
|> place new windows, your client really isn't in much position to argue
|> about it.  Some window managers can be told when to make the user place
|> the window; I don't know whether this is true of TWM or not.
|> 
|> In other words, you're trying to do this the wrong place.  It's not
|> something your client has control over; this is a window manager issue
|> and has to be dealt with as such.

twm will honor USPosition hints if they are set and will optionally honor
PPosition hints.  These flags are in the WM_NORMAL_HINTS property of the
XSizeHints structure.  USPosition should ONLY be set if the user requested
the position.  PPosition should be used to request a default window position
from within the program.

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Tom LaStrange

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