* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 01:16:29AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > hmmm... try searching for "stargate atlantis" or "stargate s09e01" > > > > Still nothing. > > okay. > > try using fvwm2. it forces a new windows to be placed at > a particular location by offering you a four-way cursor which you must > move and then click where you want the window to be placed. > > what i am expecting is the behaviour to be different for > non-placement-forcing window managers. > > what i am expecting is that all non-placement-forcing window managers > cannot _tell_ that a popup is being done, but that fvwm causes a change > in behaviour of mozilla - reordering of x-window events perhaps - such > that it becomes obvious that something's going on. > > perhaps a zero-sized popup is being requested, and fvwm says "go to > hell" but gnome or kde say "duhhhhh okie, here you are".
I can't imagine that this is the case, it would be a pretty fundamental bug in some widely used window managers. Since it's your theory, give it a try, I've tested with sawfish and metacity and seen no popup. > > i have also, just in case, just upgraded mozilla-firefox, to 1.0.6. > > the symptoms are the same. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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