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

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:14:33AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
[...]
> 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.

The only thing I remember was about making MPlayer remember the position
when playing more than one file, which would be something entirely
different.
And I am of course not convinced since both from a theoretical
standpoint it makes more sense for the geometry option to actually work
since it's already there, it simplified the code and lastly I had the
impression it actually _reduced_ the overall number of complaints - but
maybe I just scared everyone into shutting up :-P.

> 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.

Well, finding the right -geometry options should be a matter of seconds
(-geometry +xpos+ypos) unless you want some different behaviour than it offers.
I guess it wouldn't be too much of an effort to extend -geometry by
something that says "don't set position", but to me it seems to minor to
invest my time (as an illustration why: at LinuxTag I alone had 3 people
ask about some placement and fullscreen issues related with xinerama but
none about general placement).
This also matches my overall experience, I remember lots of complaints
about the default placements the windows managers did but besides these
two none about the forced MPlayer way...

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger