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

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi
Wed Feb 3 22:18:37 CET 2010


On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:33 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:16:42PM +0100, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
> > From a quick test my impression was that the unpatched mplayer always
> > opened the video window centered, while the patched version placed the
> > window randomly, sometimes parts of the window were off screen.
> 
> That's exactly what happens when you allow the window manager to place
> the window - and the reason why I refused to make MPlayer respect
> window manager placement before.

There is a difference between giving default placement hints and
overriding the window manager by forcefully moving the window. The
latter is the really nasty part of MPlayer's former behavior but your
patch also drops the former.




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