[openbox] GNOME clock window disappears off screen

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:38:28 +0100
Neil Bird <neil at fnxweb.com> wrote:
| 
|    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?
| 

I have noticed this too, and also assumed it was a GNOME-Clock bug.
However once you have the pannel the way you want, next login it will
be placed correctly.

I have no idea what metacity did.


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