[openbox] placement totally broken?

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> For all I know, "Smart" and "UnderMouse" are both synonyms for "Random".
> And it has always been so :-(
>
> I must be doing something wrong, but what?  I am running bare Openbox
> (no Gnome or KDE), single screen, just 4 desktops - pretty vanilla.
>
> One possibility - does Openbox try any reasonable policy at all when it
> can't find a spot with no overlap?  Or does it really give up and revert
> to randomness?  I always have a small xconsole window and a small
> gkrellm panel running in 2 corners, and this being a laptop with
> 1024x768 resolution, my Emacs and Firefox windows don't fit.  But I
> don't mind if the title bar of the xconsole is partially obscured, for
> example.  That is still _much_ better than if all its contents are
> obscured.  So a policy that considers the two outcomes equally bad would
> not be very Smart indeed.

It's true that Smart behaves in this way, but UnderMouse shouldn't.

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Mikael Magnusson