Re: FVWM: window placement

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:21:29 -0400

"Czarina Caro L. Tablante 1995-24644" <ctablant_at_eee.upd.edu.ph> writes:
> My XWindows has to be restarted just to get my windows in their right
> positions. the only applications opened upon startup are netscape and
> 3 sxpm windows (to act as graphical overlays to parts of netscape
> that i DONT want the user to be able to click on). Upon first startup
> of Xwindows, or after i changed something in my .xinitrc, the xpms
> are on the wrong positions! After killing X and starting it again
> (there are times i've had to do it twice or thrice), the xpm's (using
> sxpm's) are in the right places already. i've read that fvwm and sxpm
> dont work together well, and the solution was to add "sleep
> <seconds>" after each call to sxpm in the .xinitrc file. i did that,
> and that's still how my windows look. this is surely fvwm's problem,
> but i have no idea how to solve it. does anybody know what i can do
> about this?

You should always mention version numbers.

I looked at sxpm in the xpm package version 3.4j.

sxpm.c reads the geometry argument, but doesn't set x/y coordinates.
The problem with geometry is in sxpm, not fvwm.
It might not be hard to fix sxpm.

If you mention the version of fvwm you are using, it might be possible
to make fvwm move the window to the location you want after its
created.

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Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 21:23:38 BST

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