[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] x11 vo drivers override user settings for window placement

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:38:17PM -0700, Mark Tiefenbruck wrote:
[...]
> You're creating the window with the specified size and position (this
> is good; it's what you're supposed to do -- I just forgot) so there's
> no reason to move the window at all, even if there's no window manager
> running. Thus, the appropriate fix is actually just to remove the call
> to vo_x11_nofs_sizepos entirely.
> 
> So, again, what's the hold-up here?

Simply because with MPlayer it is never easy and certainly never as easy
as one might think. Your proposed way to fixing it does not work because
it breaks resizing the window for the next movie with -fixed-vo.
I am also unsure how to provide both the current feature of playing all
movies in a centered window with -fixed-vo and let the window-manager do
its job.
Know of a way to change the position hint without hiding and without
destroying the window but that still has a reasonable chance to be
respected by the window manager?

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger