[compiz] place plugin

[David Reveman]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:34 +0200, dragoran wrote: 
> David Reveman wrote:
> > 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.
> but it seems that it does (they get moved to weird position if compiz is 
> started while some windows are open).. it should atleast leave them at 
> their old position. (metacity does not do this)

It's a bug if they gets moved.

> >  compiz doesn't
> > really try to avoid weird positions. the move plugin have some code that
> > avoids moving windows to weird positions but that's only for when moving
> > windows.
> >
> > A plugin that makes sure that windows are never placed at weird
> > positions could be written for this purpose.
> >
> >   
> how would this fix the problem for windows gets misplaced at startup?

It doesn't. I can't reproduce the misplacement issue on my system and I
don't know what's causing it.

-David