pop-up window handling

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:26, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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.

Would it be posible to have some option to force this behaviour even if
the application specifies a position? 

The reason why I'm saying this is that I get neck-strain from programs
like mozilla and evolution which open the transients at a position
relative to (0,0), which sends the dialog two monitors away on a 3
monitor xinerama configuration.

saludos,

Edscott


> 
> 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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