+mikachu On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Dana Jansens <dan...@orodu.net> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Nico Golde <n...@debian.org> wrote: >> forcemerge 605405 551807 >> thanks >> >> Hi, >> * hikaru <hikaru.deb...@web.de> [2010-11-29 18:18]: >>> If openbox is set up with a panel on the top edge of the screen very few >>> programs are placed incorrectly when started the first time in that way, >>> that >>> the window doesn't respect the panel and will be placed on the top edge of >>> the >>> screen, meaning that its menu bar will be hidden underneath the panel. If I >>> move the application window to the correct position I can close the window >>> or >>> terminate the application completely, the next time I bring it up again the >>> window has the correct position - until I reboot. >>> The programs with this problem I identified so far are ktorrent and torcs. >>> All >>> others I use work fine and respect the panels. These fine working programs >>> include kolourpaint (so nothing KDE related) and rhythmbox (so no general >>> problem with programs that start iconified). >> >> Thanks for reporting this issue. Dana or Mikachu, do you have any idea what >> could cause this problem? > > The application requesting a position under the panel. > > Since a few versions, when an application requests a very specific > (and common) position under the panel, it is moved below it instead. > But maybe these are asking something slightly different, and so > Openbox believes they know what they are doing. > >> I have no idea and am using a top placed panel since quite a while without >> ever noticing such a problem. > > Ktorrent also does not give me a problem. It opens under Openbox's > placement policy, not from a position specified in the app, and so > doesn't go under the panel. > > % ktorrent --version > Qt: 4.6.2 > KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) > KTorrent: 3.3.4 > > >>> It also doesn't matter which panel or distribution is used. I first found >>> the >>> effect on Debian Squeeze with Gnome where I replaced metacity with openbox, >>> but >>> I could reproduce it with Lubuntu 10.04 >>> and openSuse 11.3 where I use a plain LXDE installation with openbox and >>> lxpanel. >>> Interestingly the size of the window is correct, it is just displaced. If >>> the >>> application is started with a maximized window and it is placed too high, >>> there >>> is a gap on the bottom of the window >>> that has the height of the upper panel. >>> >>> This bug might be related to #551807 but I'm not sure. >> >> Yes I agree, merging for now. >> >> Cheers >> Nico >> -- >> Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA >> For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. >> >
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