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List:       freedesktop-compiz
Subject:    Re: [compiz] place plugin
From:       David Reveman <davidr () novell ! com>
Date:       2007-05-21 19:26:50
Message-ID: 1179775610.9056.5.camel () ion ! ximian
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On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:35 +0200, Guillaume Seguin wrote:
> 2007/5/21, David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 14:06 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> > > The place plugin has a bug:
> > > when compiz is restarted or started to replace another wm it the windows
> > > are placed in weird positions ( titlebar behind the panel etc.)
> > >
> > > shouln't the place plugin loop over all open windows and place them
> > > correctly when loaded? this should solve this issues.
> > > any reason why this isn't done? have I missed something or is this just
> > > a bug?
> >
> > compiz should not place existing windows at startup. compiz doesn't
> 
> Would it be possible to change that startup behaviour? Switching from
> metacity to compiz is quite awful at the moment. And there are also
> some minimize problems (windows that are mapped but are known as
> minimized by X, so that you just can't do anything)

Whatever bugs that exist should of course be fixed. If there's other
things than bugs that is causing it to be awful, please explain more.

-David

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