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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
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO
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> 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.

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Tom LaStrange

Hewlett Packard Co.               ARPA: toml@hpfctel.hp.com
Graphics Technology Division      UUCP: hplabs!hpfcla!hpfctel!toml
Fort Collins, CO