From freedesktop-compiz Mon May 21 20:03:41 2007 From: Dennis Kasprzyk Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:03:41 +0000 To: freedesktop-compiz Subject: Re: [compiz] place plugin Message-Id: <200705212203.42251.onestone () opencompositing ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-compiz&m=117977783416968 Am Montag 21 Mai 2007 21:34:26 schrieb Mike Dransfield: > David Reveman wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:35 +0200, Guillaume Seguin wrote: > >> 2007/5/21, David Reveman : > >>> 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. > > I am also seeing the minimized window problem. > > Any windows which are minimized when compiz is running > disappear from the taskbar when switching to kwin. They > come back after switching to compiz again. > This is the reason why beryl has a "Map minimized window on shotdown" option. Kwin only manages mapped windows on startup and also maps minimized windows on shutdown. > > -David > > > > _______________________________________________ > > compiz mailing list > > compiz@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz > > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > compiz@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz