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

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Reimar Doeffinger!

 On 2007.06.25 at 15:25:26 +0200, Reimar Doeffinger wrote next:

> 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...

Well people got accustomed to it and consider it strictly a feature, not
a bug. At least I don't see anything wrong with media player being
(probably the only) application which doesn't preserve its old position
and doesn't follow "smart" window placement, like other windows. It
just seems logical to have it always in the center of the screen.

As about bugs, imho the worst placement-related bug is that mplayer
loses its window position when switching to the next file, even with
-fixed-fo; even more, it loses its fullscreen status, which is really
annoying.

-- 

Vladimir