left or top taskbar & multiwindow

[Harold L Hunt II]

Fabrice,

Kensuke is working hard on a new multi-window window manager (see his 
announcement in today's mailing list log) that will replace the existing 
functionality.  I think this new window manager and multi-window mode 
will be released within a month, so there is not much point in debugging 
problems with the current multi-window mode.

Harold

Fabrice Coudert wrote:

> Hi folks,
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> 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 :
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> 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.
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> 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.
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