Re: XForms: fl_set_form_position doesn't work as expected

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 8 Apr 98 06:52:23 PDT

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> This doesn't seem to work on vuewm (HP-VUE); border_width is always returned
> as zero.

HP always did have to be strange. :-)

> You can, I think, subtract the form origin as returned by
> XGetWindowAttributes() from the form position given by form->x and form->y to
> get the top and side border widths.

True. Since I believe positioning is done without respect to border,
you can probably ignore the border width. Perhaps someone can do a
set of experiments and see.

The bottom line is probably that no matter how hard one tries to place
a Form or Window in a specific place on the screen, the window manager
is probably going to do whatever it damned well pleases anyhow.

spl
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