[MPlayer-users] [TEST-REQUEST] let window manager do placing by default

[Ilja Sekler]

On 03.02.2010 21:36, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:03:52PM +0100, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> 
>> depending on the position on the gnome-terminal window, -vo gl, -vo
>> x11 and -vo xv place the MPlayer window differently. Mostly two of
>> them behave the same and the random third one does his own thing.
> 
> That's what your Window Manager decides to do with MPlayer's window.

It looked just a bit odd that while there were no visible changes to any
windows on the desktop, the position of MPlayer's window for the same
video was chosen differently, if a different -vo was provided on the
command line. After that, the position persisted across repeated runs
for each -vo correspondingly.

> Please also speak up if you think that behaviour is bad enough that
> it should not be the default for MPlayer.

Quite the contrary, this improves the integration of MPlayer in a
desktop environment a lot. Since this behavior can be easily overridden
by the -geometry option for all special cases, this is a non-issue.

-- 
Regards

Ilja