[openbox] GNOME clock window disappears off screen

[Neil Bird]

   I had been presuming this was a GNOME clock bug, but I now don't know 
whether it's a bug/presumption on the clock applet's part, or a bug in 
openbox.

   It's a relatively simple test case:  I keep my GNOME clock (from the 
gnome-panel package) on my *bottom* panel.  When I click it, the 
calendar window comes up seemingly attached to the panel, above the 
clock applet data.

   However, if it gets bigger while open (I open a previously closed 
'Locations' section, or it adds appointments data having looked it up in 
the background), the window extends downwards (as it's grown), covering 
the applet and making it near impossible to close (by clicking on the 
applet).

   Under metacity, when this calendar window grows, it seems to reattach 
itself, so that it grows upwards.  I wonder whether this is because it's 
"_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK".

   So the question is, is gnome-panel's clock erroneously relying upon 
metacity-specific functionality, or is openbox supposed to watch out for 
resizing 'dock' windows and relocate them accordingly?

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