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

[The Wanderer]

Attila Kinali wrote:

> The code you are questioning here has been written at an very early
> stage of the MPlayer development and had got its share of testing and
> review. And so far, i don't remember anyone complain about the fact
> that the MPlayer window comes up centered (actualy there were a lot
> of complaints when it didn't happen). So, you being the first one who
> dislikes this behavior in 5 or 6 years, i guess the code cannot be 
> that wrong.

I'm not 100% positive that this is the same behaviour you're talking
about, but:

Once upon a time, I had my window manager set to remember MPlayer's
window position, i.e. to place the window in a specific place on screen.
Then someone came along with a complaint about the window no location no
longer being correct after changing videos while in fullscreen; Reimar
committed a fix for that behaviour as r18718, and now the window appears
in the center of the screen no matter what I do (short of extensive
experimentation with the -geometry option which seems far more than
should be reasonable); the window manager's Remember setting has no 
effect whatsoever.

I mentioned this on -svnlog at the time, and there was a patch posted on
06-20-2006 which AFAIR did not fix the problem for me. Since I had no
arguments beyond the ones I had already used, and Reimar, being the only
developer involved in the discussion, did not seem remotely persuaded by
those - and indeed, given that the patch he posted did not fix the
problem I had described, did not seem to entirely understand the problem
itself - I more or less dropped the subject.

However, the fact remains that I am *not* happy about being completely
unable - short, again, of more experimentation to find correct values
for -geometry than seems reasonable (given that the WM can handle this
automagically) - to have MPlayer appear at any location *other* than the
center of the screen.

-- 
       The Wanderer

Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.