Esben Stien <b0ef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on Fri Dec 30, 2005 [07:24:47 AM] said: > Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > the app can't be responsible for remembering the position of its > > windows? > > I would strongly disagree;). I think this is exactly the apps > responsibility. The WM should not maintain a database over every > window that an app may open. That's absurd;). Imagine apps like > Nautilus, Gimp and such. It's not very cumbersome to switch WM either > as all will be lost. Hi; The application can specify its desired geometry, both size and placement, but the window manager can ignore it. Unfortunately, it seems like qt apps seem to mostly ignore the -geometry command line option. So, you can blame either the app, or the wm. But in the case of a qt app, they dont seem to make any effort to deal with the situation. My qt app obeys the geometry, qjackctl and qdvdauthor, as a trivial test do not... Paul set@xxxxxxxxx
