[compiz] place plugin

[Dennis Kasprzyk]

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 <davidr at 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.
>
> 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
> >
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