[openbox] Openbox seems to ignore gravity for _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Wed Aug 31 13:32:40 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Anthony Thyssen
<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> I am using "wmctrl" to move windows, and I want to be able to make use
> of the gravity option in that properity.  However in my testing openbox
> seems to ignore that setting.
>
> For example...
>   wmctrl -v -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,20,20,-1,-1
>
> is normal and moves the window relative to the top-left corner. However
> any other value for that first number (a number from 0 to 10)  does not
> effect the window placement.
>
> For example
>  wmctrl -v -r :ACTIVE: -e 9,20,20,-1,-1
>
> should position the window relative to the bottom right (south east) corner of the
> desktop.  but it still appears at the topleft corner.
>
> The gravity setting is being sent, but openbox is ignoring it.
>
>
> For info on the settings see...
>  http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html

Definitely sounds like a bug. Would you mind opening a bugzilla entry
for this, so we can track it to completion properly?

Thanks!
- Dana


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