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Top-level window positioning decisions

Top-level window positioning decisions

Posted Feb 10, 2025 9:50 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Top-level window positioning decisions by Wol
Parent article: What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition

MS Windows has terrible terrible window management, particularly when it comes to laptops that get suspended and resumed attached to external displays. Linux WMs (certainly, GNOME 2 and Mate) just do much remember at remember what the layout was and setting it back to where it was.

One of the most frustrating things when you're forced to use MS Windows as the WM on a corp laptop. (At least WSL gives me a proper Linux environment - though unfortunately, with a default display server [wayland] whose clipboard integration still sucks a bit; At least compared to VcXsrv, which I still prefer for that feature, but unfortunately it requires display to go over TCP/IP from WSL apps to the VcXsrv in the windows session, and that will get reset everytime you suspend resume - so you need another layer of indirection, via xpra, to get around that, if it matters).


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