Bug 19172

Summary:	'best-fit' isn't
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	sawfish	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	mharris
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Description Tim Waugh 2000-10-16 12:40:54 UTC

I currently have sawfish set to 'best-fit' placement, but it keeps sending
new windows to the top right-hand corner, regardless of whether or not
there's already a window there. :-(

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2000-10-16 14:40:45 UTC

It seemed to be more of a case of one window being 'invisible' as far as the
placement algorithm went.  When I closed that one (gnome-terminal) window, it
worked fine with new gnome-terminal windows.

Sorry, don't know how to reproduce it.

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2000-10-16 14:52:50 UTC

Hmm, will forward to John Harper and see if he has thoughts.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2000-10-17 15:43:29 UTC

Okay, here's how to reproduce it.

Start a gnome-terminal.  It appears at the top right hand corner. (I'm using
best-fit placement and _not_ remembering window attributes.)

Move it slightly, dropping it back at the top right hand corner.  Start another
gnome-terminal.  The new window now covers the old one.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2001-03-21 23:30:22 UTC

The ChangeLog for 0.38 sounds promising:

[...]
        - Corrected off-by-one error in `smart' placement modes
[...]

Haven't tried it though.

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2001-04-12 12:24:18 UTC

Sounds semi-similar to my window placement problem in bug #21732

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2001-04-12 12:26:36 UTC

Also sounds similar to bug #15438

Comment 7 Havoc Pennington 2001-07-12 19:40:19 UTC

Upstream at http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8413

Closing on RH level.