On January 8, 2023 at 11:17:48 pm +01:00, Matthew D. Fuller <fulle...@over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 01:49:37AM +0100 I heard the voice of > Per Backman, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > > I have stalonetray running in the upper right corner, after restart > > it is in the left upper corner. If I move it back again it stays > > there after restart. It also happens with other apps, but not > > always. > > > Well, in a quick glance at stalonetray, nothing in the window setup > code jumps out at me as being particularly odd. I can't say I've seen > anything like that happening here, though I've mostly just got a pile > of xterms and browser windows, so there's a lot of clients I wouldn't > be exercising at all. > > A common thing to test would be disabling EWMH support and seeing if > that hides it; there's no reason that would _break_ anything, but > stalonetray does seem to participate in EWMH conversations, and one > side or the other could be crossing signals on what something means. > Apart from that, it's probably down to bisecting or otherwise trying > out some steps to find out where it shows up... I don't have any > good guesses. Were you previously in the 4.0.3 release, or some dev > snapshot in between? > Yes, I was on 4.03 before, then on the first beta. I tried 4.10B on two > distributions, PCLinuxOS and Venomlinux, two different computers, different > age and different maker (Apple and Lenovo, both Intel). Now I compiled the 20221228 beta without EWMH support, and the problem seems to be gone, at least on one computer (the Mac, from 2008, I think, and PCLinuxOS). Maybe this is more of a mystery than a problem, when I moved Stalonetray back in place by ALT+mousebutton 1, it stayed there even if I restarted CTWM ten times... Per B
