[openbox] Can't place an undecorated window at the bottom of the screen

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Fri Nov 11 13:30:48 EST 2011


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:

> Openbox 3.5.0
>
> As far as I can tell, it's impossible to put an undecorated window at the
> bottom of the screen.  You can try it like this:
>
>    <application name="minibuf" class="Emacs">
>      <decor>no</decor>
>      <position force="yes">
>        <x>0</x>
>        <y>-1</y>
>      </position>
>    </application>
>
> This should give you an undecorated window whose bottom edge is flush with
> the bottom of the monitor.  Instead, there is a gap.  The gap is the same
> height as a normal title bar, which makes me think openbox normally
> compensates for the titlebar height when placing windows, but forgets to
> remove this compensation if there is no titlebar.  If you put the
> decoration
> back in, you get the expected result.
>
> The result is the same if you use the screen height instead of -1.  You can
> place the window higher, but as soon as you get close to the bottom, it
> won't go down any more.
>
> At least that's how it works for me.  I guess it's possible the application
> is at fault, but my understanding is that the force=yes is supposed to
> place
> the window regardless of where the application wants it.
>

Sounds like this?

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5179
http://git.openbox.org/?p=dana/openbox.git;a=commit;h=a0d14c7d4468b6348d906a68bb5dfe3acce0ad64

- Dana
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