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

[The Wanderer]

Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:

> 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.

In my case, I have three windows of a Japanese dictionary program
already open in "correct" locations, and I want the MPlayer window to
appear in a place - which I have clearly defined in my mind, and which
does not change with time - which does not overlap with any of them.

I can easily imagine that anyone else who wants to do cross-reference or
comparison work of any remotely comparable nature would not want the
window to be 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.

It does not lose fullscreen status for me, and never has, except in the
case where I had not specified '-fs' before any filenames on the command
line.

The remainder of that description - losing window position when
switching files - is, IIRC, precisely the problem which the change I
objected to was supposed to fix.

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