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Bug 73559

Summary:	Remembering a window's position and dimension
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	berto <aguilr>
Component:	sawfish	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description berto 2002-09-06 03:29:08 UTC

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Description of problem:
It would be nice if sawfish 'remembered' the last size of a window and where the
window was positioned on the desktop.  Maybe there could be options in the
window's pulldown menu like in previous versions.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This is an enhancement request.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-01 19:40:08 UTC

We are providing sawfish "as-is" so closing all feature requests for it.

I would forward this bug to gnome.org for you, but I'm assuming the feature was
deliberately removed. You might want to search bugzilla.gnome.org or Sawfish
mailing list for previous discussion.

Comment 2 berto 2002-10-02 22:01:51 UTC

Call me crazy, but today I learned that I'm not using sawfish!  It's been
metacity all along.  Is there a way for metacity to remember the previous
position of a window?

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-02 22:21:09 UTC

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81802

Also there's a fair bit of discussion in wm-spec-list archives.

Short answer though is that it can't be implemented reliably without 
some new conventions in the WM spec. In any case, 81802 on gnome.org tracks this
issue.