Window Placement

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:01 -0400, Emily Brantley wrote:
> Does the "best-fit" window placement algorithm annoy anyone else ?
> 
> After I open a couple of windows and all the vacant real-estate is gone,
> all the rest proceed to overlap one another almost as perfectly as
> possible all the way up in the top-left corner.  Placing windows
> perfectly atop one another seems broken.

What you're describing is Metacity's behavior in FC3. It's even worse in
FC4. Every time I open a new window in FC4 I feel like throwing stuff
around because it doesn't seem to make any sense. When a couple of small
windows and opening a large one, Metacity will decide to mash the window
into some open space, best-fit or not. Combine that with the change that
opens new windows *under* the active window, and you have an excellent
recipe for GUI rage.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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