Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould.doc!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: vtwm version 3.0 problem Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 08:47:00 GMT References: <12094@life.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia Lines: 29 In-reply-to: dms@ai.mit.edu's message of 29 Nov 90 16:52:10 GMT In article <12094@life.ai.mit.edu> dms@ai.mit.edu (David M. Siegel) writes: dms> this version seems better, it has a major problem: If a window with dms> a geometry resource is created when you're not in the home portion dms> of the virtual desktop, it is placed in the home portion anyway. dms> The previous version would create the window relative to the desktop dms> that you were in. the way that vtwm decides where to put a window is a heuristic, and doesn't always work. roughly speaking it is: if window is transient --> real screen if window is nailed --> real screen if pposition is set --> real screen if uposition is set --> virtual screen else --> ask user (--> real screen usually) You should be able to add `notvirtualgeometries' to your .{v,}twmrc to make all windows appear on the real screen. dms> Also, am I running the most recent version of vtwm? yes. a 3.x will probably appear after xmas - it has various bug fixes, and a couple of small enhancements. dms> -Dave dave. -- Dave Edmondson, Systems Support. Opinions are all my own. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ. phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 email: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu ``Be selective, be objective, be an asset to the collective'' -- Jazzy B