David Necas (Yeti) writes: > However, metacity takes GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_UTILITY as > `place always to the upper left corner, no matter what', > thus exhibiting the second behaviour. Ah ;-) Yes, it was metacity... > The crucial difference is that whatever I try on X11 and > whatever kind of silly placement behaviour I get, it is > always the same for both hiding methods (for a particular > window manager). On Win32 they are different and I don't > know why. Well, the window state management code in the gdk/win32 backend is quite hairy, and no doubt has bugs... I am afraid of touching it, though, as fixing one corner case might break another, without me noticing. I would almost recomment you manually keep track of where the window should be after re-showing it, and move it there explicitly if necessary ;-) --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list