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From: healy@spice.cs.cmu.edu (James Healy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Window manager geometry updating.
Keywords: attributes, window managers, updating.
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Date: 24 Aug 88 23:10:27 GMT
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Today I noticed that both twm and awm both do strange things with the x
and y attributes of a window.  When I create a simple window and then map
it while running either twm or awm, both set the x and y window attributes
to weird values like 0 and 21.  These never get changed regardless of
where I move the windows.

The width and height attributes, however, are always updated properly.
Also uwm seems to update the x and y values correctly, as well as the
width and height.

I verified this on an IBM RT and a Sun 3, both running Mach.  Has anybody
else noticed this or this a local problem?  I'm perfectly willing to send
in a formal bug report, but I wanted to find out if this is possibly a
known bug.

Or am I just being stupid and overlooking something obvious?  If so, how
can I get the *real* x and y values for a window while using either awm or
twm?

Thanks for your help,
--Jim Healy.
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