From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11847 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2018 22:04:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11836 invoked by uid 89); 22 Aug 2018 22:04:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=positioning, X11, Hx-languages-length:2160, oldest X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:04:44 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id w7MM4eOj057064 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:04:42 -0700 Message-ID: <5B7DDDF8.6040604@tlinx.org> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:11:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: problem with X11 auto-window placement: far away, and now under other windows Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00297.txt.bz2 I've had about 2-3 degradations regarding auto-window placement over the past few months, though with 1, possibly > than a year. The oldest prob with is the least problematic and that regards the default x,y positioning of a new program or window coming up. It used to be very convenient in that if I was typing in a Winbased term-prog that I use to ssh into windows, I usually placed it on the right of my screen. When I started an X prog, like gvim, it would come up with the same size (row+cols) of the window I started it from, but to the left+above. These were not fixed positions, but some "set" of positions that would be cycled). W/r/t the Z-position, the window always came up on top of other windows, and by default my active input position was always placed in the new window. This was the best behavior as the window came up near where I had been typing. I thought this was a cool behavior of the X-display manager. --- 1st prob: Some time later, the window would start coming up at some set of fixed positions but now to the left of the screen and no longer near the window I had been typing in. My input would still shift to the new window, so it wasn't too bad, but for most work I still need the edit+output windows side-by-side, so have to move the window over. latest one: But now have a new degradation: the windows pop-under existing windows, and trigger the task bar sliding open from the left -- both obscuring and often preventing access to the wanted window! I'll have other X windows on top of it, and I can't get access to the wanted window until I first re-arrange other windows so I can click on the new window and bring it to the top. This is really getting to be a pain! Is there something I can change to revert these behaviors? I can't think of what I could have changed in windows to cause this...anyone have any ideas? Is there an X11 setting for the built-in window manager to have new windows come up near the window you are working in and having the new window come up on top instead of on the bottom of the 'Z' stack? Thanks! Linda -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple