I responded privately but thought better of it so am sending this to the list as well. This might help others whose window managers "know better" and are corrupting the window placement or sizing.
FWIW: I'm running OpenSuSE-11.0 w/FVWM2 window manager (not KDE or Gnome, the standard choices). I'm not seeing these problems. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:03:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dexter N Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes again. On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Dexter N Muir wrote:
OS is Mandriva 2008.1, WM=KDE. Bog-standard, default settings. AFAIK no "Desktop Effects".
The best I can suggest then is to try another window manager. I don't know whether that's available on your system, but a worthy thing to try to see if it's a window manager specific problem.
Dock-position is not top of "main window" as such, it's top-left of total app window.
Not how it's supposed to work. This is probably due to your window manager as well. For the "popup" windows Xastir goes through a sequence of layouts like: *) Near top and somewhat right of drawing area top left. *) Below & right of the last window by about the size of the window decorations. *) Repeat until five windows near each other. *) Somewhat below and right of first position above. *) Below & right of the last window by about the size of the window decorations. *) Repeat until five windows near each other. *) Go to beginning. An easy test is to open a bunch of Send Message windows. They'll mostly overlay each other in the two groups as specified above. Where you start in the sequence depends upon how many windows have been opened before. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
