[openbox] restart moves window frames down

Ben Jansens ben at orodu.net
Tue Oct 14 00:50:45 EDT 2003


On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:45:43PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> 
> On Monday, October 13, 2003 at 09:36PM, Marc Wilson wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:22:25PM -0400, John Russell wrote:
> >>I have noticed that each time I restart, all windows with frames around
> >>them, get reset about one frame width lower on my screen than they were.
> >
> >I haven't noticed this one myself. :)  How does one reproduce it?
> 
> I've seen this if I kill -9 openbox, but that's about it. Since it's 
> probably not something a window manager (?) would expect, I guess I can't 
> complain about windows moving down the height of the titlebar... :P

kill -9 doesn't get to the window manager. The process is just killed.

> Sounds to me that John is having this problem with regular restarts, and 
> I've never heard of that before.

Sounds like it is crashing when he chooses to restart, a backtrace would be
nice (http://openbox.org/bugs.php). But try the latest release first.

Ben
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://icculus.org/pipermail/openbox/attachments/20031014/44f55500/attachment.pgp>


More information about the openbox mailing list