pop-up window handling

[Olivier Fourdan]

Okay, this actually gave me an idea for xfwm4...

What it does is center transient relatively to their parent window, but
only if the transient didn't specify a position itself. That should work
in 100% cases.

As a side note, rox (1.3.x) places dialogs under the pointer, so the
window manager follow apps requisites.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 18:50, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> I would add that, according to Metacity documentation, some Java apps
> set transient_for even on popup menus, making those practically unusable
> when centered in parent window.
> 
> So, yes, this could be done in the window manager, but not necessarily
> suitable for all apps. 
> 
> The best would be that the application itself centers its dialogs (like
> some gnome apps do)
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 18:44, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > On 10 Sep 2002 09:08:54 -0700
> > Jack Coates <jack at monkeynoodle.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any way to make xfwm put pop-ups in the middle of the parent
> > > application? For instance -- I delete a file in Rox. Rox pops up a
> > > window asking if I'm sure. That window comes up in the opposite corner
> > > of the screen.
> > 
> > Actually, ROX should take care of that. Perhaps xfwm can be a little
> > smarter if the dialog sets the 'transient_for' hint, but I'm not even
> > sure ROX does that for its dialogs.
> > 
> > Jasper
> > 
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