Debian Bug report logs - #725
twm: sometimes places windows incorrectly

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Message #10 received at 725-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 725-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:59:52 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

Message #15 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl>

To: 725@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#725: twm places windows incorrectly

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:17:06 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 2 Apr 95 03:44 BST, iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> Package: xbaseR6
> Version: 0.93 (XFree86[tm] 3.1.1) -7
> 
> I have DontMoveOff set in my .twmrc, and don't have RandomPlacement.
> 
> When I place a window with the left mouse button while pushing it up
> against the it edge of the screen it is placed correctly.
> 
> However, if I place it with the middle button (for example, because I
> want to drag out one of the other edges), twm places the window too
> far to the right by the width of its border (that is, the border that
> twm will place around the window).
> 
> Attached is a copy of my .twmrc.
> 
> (BTW, I've had this problem with every version of twm I've ever
> used ...)

<snip>

I can confirm that this is still the case with version 3.3.1-2 of the
xbase package. Not only is the window placed too far to the right, it is
also placed too far down when you are pushing against the top border of
the screen.

I suggest that this bug is forwarded to the XFree86 team.

Remco

Message #20 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>

To: 725@bugs.debian.org

Cc: remco@Cal011205.student.utwente.nl

Subject: xbase: twm places windows incorrectly

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:44:09 -0500

Remco, could do me a small favor and re-confirm this for XFree85 3.3.2?

If it's still around, I promise I will forward it upstream.  Quickly.

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Message #25 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl>

To: Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>

Cc: 725@bugs.debian.org, Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>

Subject: Re: xbase: twm places windows incorrectly

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:05:16 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:

> Remco, could do me a small favor and re-confirm this for XFree85 3.3.2?
> 
> If it's still around, I promise I will forward it upstream.  Quickly.

Yes, it's still there. If you place a window with the middle mouse button,
it is not placed where you want it but a bit too far down and to the
right. I tested this with both Ian's .twmrc and the default system.twmrc
that comes with Debian. If you place the window with the left mouse
button, nothing is wrong.

I also noticed that with Ian's setup, but NOT with the default setup, this
also happens when resizing a window using ANY button. The only way in
Ian's setup to get a window to resize is to press the right mouse button
on the title bar and choose 'resize'. No matter what button you press to
set the new size for the window, it is always shifted down and to the
right a bit.

I normally don't use twm and I don't know much about its configuration, so
I don't know what causes these things.

Ian, can you please comment on this (provided this e-mail address is stil
valid and you get this message)?

Remco

Message #32 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>

To: Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>, 725@bugs.debian.org, xfree86@xfree86.org

Cc: XFree86 developers list <devel@xfree86.org>

Subject: Re: twm places windows incorrectly

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:57:42 +0200

first: anyone familar with twm code details?  just tested this a bit
but I can't/won't dig into twn sources myself right now, so please
can anyone else pick up this ball ?

On Apr 15, Branden Robinson wrote:

>                          Debian bug report logs - #725
>                         twm places windows incorrectly
>                                        
>    Package: xbase; Reported by: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson); dated
>    Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:03:30 GMT; Maintainer for xbase is Branden Robinson
>    <branden@debian.org>.
> 
> Yes, it's still there. If you place a window with the middle mouse button,
> it is not placed where you want it but a bit too far down and to the
> right. I tested this with both Ian's .twmrc and the default system.twmrc
> that comes with Debian. If you place the window with the left mouse
> button, nothing is wrong.

I can't reproduce this problem at all using XFree86 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 twm binaries,
using plain XFree86 system.twmrc (which doesn't allow moving windows with 
middle/right mouse button btw -- system.twmrc attached) and not with
Ian's twmrc below.  any more details to force this problem ?
don't know about the debian default system.twmrc...

> I also noticed that with Ian's setup, but NOT with the default setup, this
> also happens when resizing a window using ANY button. The only way in
> Ian's setup to get a window to resize is to press the right mouse button
> on the title bar and choose 'resize'. No matter what button you press to
> set the new size for the window, it is always shifted down and to the
> right a bit.

I can see the shift when resizing with Ian's setup, but it doesn't happen
for plain system.twmrc

Ian's setup allows resizing with Shift+Button2 on window title bars too (look 
for f.resize).  here the shifting does not happen.
playing a bit more, I added f.resize to a global menu (the Utilities menu for ease)
and using that option, the shifting doesn't show up either.
it only seems to occur when using f.resize in the _window_menu_.  strange...


> I normally don't use twm and I don't know much about its configuration, so
> I don't know what causes these things.

I have used twm for a _long_ time until recently and never seen any such problems
with my own (pretty standard) twm settings.



Harald
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Message #53 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christopher Mario Maes <cmaes@mit.edu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <725@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: twm: Fix window placement

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:43:25 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Package: twm
Version: 4.2.1-6
Followup-For: Bug #725

The attached patch fixes this long-standing bug.  Please apply before
bug #725 turns 10 years old.  :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages twm depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  menu                        2.1.7-2      Provides update-menus functions fo
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m

-- no debconf information

[twm.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #60 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: neroden@twcny.rr.com (Nathanael Nerode)

To: 725@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Forwarded upstream

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:17:52 -0400

I forwarded this bug upstream to x.org, with patch, as
freedesktop.org bug number 3754.

-- 
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Message #65 received at 725@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>

To: 725@bugs.debian.org

Subject: #725 fixed upstream

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:50:19 +1000

I just committed the fix for #725 to X.Org HEAD.  Apparently this
doesn't constitute 'fixed-upstream', so I'm going to leave manipulation
of the bug tags to someone who knwos this better than me.

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