left or top taskbar & multiwindow

[Fabrice Coudert]

Hi folks,

I usually like to set my taskbar at left border of the desktop (more 
vertical space on the desktop, more space for the task button to show 
up, all menu near the same area). But when using this configuration i'm 
experiencing two minor bugs in multiwindow mode :

1) with taskbar at left, area near the right edge of the desktop are not 
refreshed. The size of the area not refreshed is exactly the size of the 
taskbar at left. If I take a look into XWin.log I can see that the work 
area size is the actual desktop size truncated by the size the taskbar, 
but when using xev I can see that the coordinate are not translated. The 
same bug appears if the taskbar is set on top ; in this case area at 
bottom of the screen are refreshed.
A solution is to add -multimonitor : the size of the work area will be 
set to the wall desktop and all will remain ok.
I joined XWin.log with and without -multiplemonitors.

2) new window are opened under the taskbar, not at the edge of the taskbar.
If the taskbar is on left, a bit of the window is masqued by the taskbar 
and the rest appears, so I can drag it with the mouse to show all the 
window. But, if the taskbar is on top, all the window bar is hidden by 
the taskbar and I can't drag it with the mouse. A solution is to do 
something like ALT+SPACE, M (for move), and use arrow keys to move it. 
This is a bit annoying.

I started to look into the source but i will not get enought time to 
continue. I think that the problem is that work area doesn't need to be 
truncated in multiwindow mode, auto-hidden or not 
(winAdjustForAutoHide). But, a fix should be done in the window manager 
to give correct coordinate for new window, depending on the position of  
the taskbar, and if it is auto-hidden or not.

Fab.