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

[Mark Tiefenbruck]

> 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.

The window doesn't have to be centered. As demonstrated by my tests
with xterm, every popular window manager (that would honor your
configure request anyway) will respect your size hint. If the window
manager places your window somewhere else, it's because the user
specifically told it to do so. You should take this as equivalent to
using the -geometry option. -fixed-vo in this case should therefore
work the same way as when using -geometry. If you want to be careful
(and you probably should), make sure the window doesn't leave the
_NET_WORKAREA.

> 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?

You can move and/or resize the window later when you need to. I don't
have a problem with that. The problem here is that the user has no
choice over initial position, except by using the relatively inferior
-geometry option.