On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:29:12AM -0500 I heard the voice of Stefan Monnier, and lo! it spake thus: > > >> - RandomPlacement. I'll bet there are old twm-heads [...] > > > > That'd be me. > > FWIW, I happen to agree, tho I don't really care what is the default > behavior.
I knew I could count on you guys 8-} I certainly don't have any intention of removing the possibility. That's one that actually already had config every which way; 'RandomPlacement "off"' looks from a glance at CHANGES to go back to 3.1, so you could just drop that into config now and it'll put you on the manual placement whether or not the default changes. But I think most people fall the other way, and new users would fall _hard_ the other way, so it winds up being boilerplate in config. > > (And you /can/ do stuff, like type into the previously focused > > window even if you can't see that happening, That's... really kinda weird. I'd almost be tempted to say it's strictly a bug. Fortunately, you don't have to worry about my fixing it. That section of the code is so scary that when cleaning and commenting through AddWindow(), I read like the first 4 lines of the window positioning stuff, and jumped straight to the closing } to pick up again ;p > PS: One thing I wonder is how to size the new window before it's > mapped. I seem to remember that you could do "some button press, > then move the mouse to resize then button release" to place and > resize the new window, but it doesn't seem to work with my config. >From the quickest glance I could make through the aforementioned scary, it looks like there's some handling of Button2 presses that might trigger something like that. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
