Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hp-sde!hpfcdc!hpfcdq!toml From: toml@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Tom LaStrange) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Twm and Repositioning Windows Message-ID: <890009@hpfcdq.HP.COM> Date: 20 Sep 88 14:15:16 GMT References: <5916.590696332@CHILES.SLISP.CS.CMU.EDU> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 22 > Under twm, this seems impossible. It does not honor basic reconfiguration > with new positions, and it ignores the "Inter-Client Communication > Conventions Manual" (that is, setting the normal hints as well as sending > repositioning requests). I understand that it is legal for the window > manager to ignore this activity, but I find it plainly offensive that it > fights so hard when other reasonable window managers are willing to comply. > Has anyone modified twm's code to be like awm's code in this respect? Am I > correct in assuming that twm is purposefully ignoring repositioning > requests? Or is this a twm bug? Is there a fix for it? This was most definitely a twm problem. I have fixed this and windows can now reposition/resize themselves with no problems. I have sent a new copy of twm to comp.sources.x but Mike is having problems getting it to run. This new copy of twm has also been submited to MIT for R3. -- Tom LaStrange Hewlett Packard Co. ARPA: toml@hpfctel.hp.com Graphics Technology Division UUCP: hplabs!hpfcla!hpfctel!toml Fort Collins, CO