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XV rocks

Posted Mar 24, 2004 21:55 UTC (Wed) by Ross (guest, #4065)
In reply to: XV rocks by roelofs
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

Is there a patch to fix the problem where XV pulls up new windows in another
part of the virtual desktop? This may be specific to tvtwm. Basically it
will open a new window in the bottom left of the desktop if you are in the
upper left and vice versa. Very annoying but I forgot to mention it in my
"wishlist" above.

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XV rocks

Posted Mar 25, 2004 6:18 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] (1 responses)

Is there a patch to fix the problem where XV pulls up new windows in another part of the virtual desktop? This may be specific to tvtwm. Basically it will open a new window in the bottom left of the desktop if you are in the upper left and vice versa.

Do you mean all of its new windows or only specific ones? By default, it puts the info window ("i") in the upper right corner, the color editor ("e") in the lower left corner, the schnauzer in the lower right corner, and the main control window (right-click) and set-size window ("S") more or less where the image is. It seems to be completely consistent to me, and I'm pretty sure there's some .Xdefaults setting to move them somewhere else, but I haven't ever bothered to look.

If tvtwm is putting the same window in different places at different times, it's probably overriding the application's requested position. I use fvwm, FWIW.

Greg

XV rocks

Posted Mar 25, 2004 7:24 UTC (Thu) by Ross (guest, #4065) [Link]

Ah, that's probably what it is. That algorithm makes sense for a single
screen, but not an entire desktop. I guess it is querying the size of
the root window instead of the size of the screen. That should be easy
enough to fix that I might do it myself.