[compiz] place plugin

[David Reveman]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:06 +0200, Guillaume Seguin wrote:
> 2007/5/21, David Reveman <davidr at novell.com>:
> > 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.
> >
> > -David
> >
> 
> The startup problems are the placement one (which was described above)
> and the minimized windows problem : When switching from metacity to
> kwin, minimized windows are mapped (I mean visible and updating) but
> they are still in minimized state (wnck menus show "Unminimize
> window", but triggering that doesn't help), so that all you can do
> with them is close them (input is impossible, and you can't unminimize
> them). I'll try to get some xprop feedback and screenshots next time
> it happens.

It's a bug in compiz. Minimized windows should always be mapped when the
WM closes down.

-David