On 07/04/15 12:14, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:19:59 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:
>
>> On 03/04/15 09:52, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>>> raster pushed a commit to branch master.
>>>
>>> http://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git/commit/?id=c85c02ab0d997440f3831f65adc2fb999b3a3dd2
>>>
>>> commit c85c02ab0d997440f3831f65adc2fb999b3a3dd2
>>> Author: Carsten Haitzler (Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com>
>>> Date:   Fri Apr 3 17:53:26 2015 +0900
>>>
>>>       e - lost windows menu is back. no windows menu does not handle it.
>>>
>>>       fix lack of lost windows submenu. no - windows menu does not handle
>>>       it. lost windows lists windows that are LOST - out of screen bounds.
>>>       this happens a lot with some apps asking to be placed out of bounds
>>>       for whatever silly reasons they have. you literally cannot get these
>>>       windows back without this menu. bring it back!
>>>
>>>       @fix
>>
>> I'm not trying to question this, I'm aware that this is a real problem,
>> though I'm genuinely interested, could you please provide an example app
>> that does this?
>
> libreoffice. my e dev day keynote presentation. it stuffed it off-screen on my
> left screen. (left is 1920x1080 aligned to the bottom, middle is 3840x2160
> and right is 1680x1050 aligned to bottom). libreoffice insisted on putting its
> window at 0,0 .. which is hidden offscreen above my left screen - i couldn't 
> see
> the libreoffice window at all to drag it back on. it was smaller than 1080
> high. i found it with xwininfo -tree -root. i had to re-enable lost windows to
> drag it back kicking and screaming to my left monitor where it should have 
> been.
>

Thanks!

Luckily this absolute positioning crap will die with wayland.

Why do we even let windows place themselves off screen?

--
Tom.

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