Mozilla/Firefox not honoring wm margins?

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote
(on Thursday, 22 April 2004, 11:31 AM -0400):
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody else noticed that Mozilla and/or Firefox aren't honoring the
> > WM margins as set in the settings-manager? I just discovered this
> > yesterday when I reset mine and found firefox now was starting in the
> > upper left corner regardless of my top margin.
> >
> > I saw the behaviour on both xfwm 4.0.5 and xfwm 4.0.3. Anybody else
> > notice this? Is it a problem with xfwm4, or with mozilla? if the latter,
> > has anybody already contacted them?
> 
> yep, known mozilla-gtk2 bug.  it seems that somewhere the code that 
> remembers window positions (which i argued to have removed totally, but 
> i digress) is broken for gtk2 such that it always requests (0,0) as the 
> position.  the code that remembers the _size_ works properly, but the 
> call to set the size also happens to set the position.  xfwm4 places 
> windows with the desktop margins in mind, but will honor an app's 
> explicit request for a position outside those margins (if this wasn't 
> the case, apps like xfce4-panel and gkrellm wouldn't be able to be 
> placed outside the margins, which is usually why people want the margins 
> in the first place).  there's a patch on mozilla's bugzilla that should 
> hopefully be committed Real Soon Now[tm]:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209342

Okay -- thanks for the info. I'll track the bug and hopefully this issue
will go away before long.

Thanks for the explanation!

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/