Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.4) Installed from: SuSE RPMs The geometry switch or property normally allows to specify the positions of windows relative to any of the four edges of the window. A positive value defines the distance from left or top, a negative value defines the distance from bottom or right. The kwin window or application specific setting should do the same. This will be necessary when I e.g. locate small utility windows at the right or bottom edge of my desktop. Thos positions are always stored as positive distances from top left. When I now switch X terminals (servers) that have larger or smaller screens, those windows hang around in the middle of nowhere or are crushed to either border of the desktop.
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hmm... I suppose comparing distance from [top of window]->[top of screen] and [bottom of window]->[bottom of screen], using the smaller, and saving that. The same with [left] and [right]. Positive values would be interpreted as starting from [top] or [left], and negative from [bottom] or [right]. The only issue would be if unsigned integers are currently being used... That could mess things up, if someone happens to have a window more than 2 billion pixels from the edge of the screen (Which shouldn't happen... But as soon as you say something "shouldn't happen", Murphy goes and gets himself involved)
> if someone happens to have a window more than 2 billion pixels This is only almost as possible as having somebody with a screen 4 billion pixels wide or high. X11 geometry specifications work that way, why shouldn't work KDE geometry specifications work that way?
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Plasma still has the same problem. This is a similar problem as Bug 188728. People do not seem to use different X servers very often, but Linux/UNIX/X11 is not Windows, so many of my friends, colleagues and I do.
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I think this is the bug that causes Krunner to fill the whole screen.
@aaron i think you're wrong - or posted to the wrong bug ;-) this here is a very specific request to allow to define forced screen geometry as relative values (ie "20,-250" means 20px from the left and 250px from the bottom) even if you had a rule for krunner you'd by this only move it out of screen (and i guess even that should be prevented, but am not sure whether rules are restricted in positioning as well)
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And this is not a junior job