Bug 196737

Summary:	Manual placement patch
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Component:	metacity	Assignee:	Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
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Description Gérard Milmeister 2006-06-26 19:51:27 UTC

I have a Xinerama (resp. Twinview) setup with two
monitors. The metacity placement policy produces inpredictable
and sometimes annoying results. I found the manual placement patch
from http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/metacity/index.html
to be exactly what I want. The patch allows enabling using
gconf. It would be very useful to include this patch in
the default metacity package.

Comment 1 Gérard Milmeister 2006-06-26 21:09:30 UTC

Oops, that wasn't the patch I meant.
This is it:
http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/fedora/related
It places the new window on the screen, that the mouse is currently in.

Comment 2 Søren Sandmann Pedersen 2006-09-06 20:11:54 UTC

This patch should be submitted to the upstream project for consideration. I am
not necessarily opposed to the idea, but it's really upstream's call.

Note that setting "disable_workarounds" to true has significant problems in
practice, so we are not going to do that.