[jsword-devel] BibleDesktop and Persistent window positioning

[Neil Short]

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--- On Fri, 7/25/08, Tonny Kohar <tonny.kohar at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tonny Kohar <tonny.kohar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] BibleDesktop and Persistent window positioning
> To: "J-Sword Developers Mailing List" <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 11:51 PM
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM, DM Smith
> <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have checked in Adam Thomas' code to persist the
> position and size
> > of the main BibleDesktop window. After the nightly
> build, please test
> > it.
> >
> > Adam has found a tremendously simpler way to center
> the window that is
> > used for first run of BD. I'd like to know how it
> does in different
> > Linux window managers.
> >
> > It does very well on Windows and Mac. I'll be
> testing Gnome on Fedora
> > 9 tomorrow.
> >
> 
> Just tested it on Linux Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, run pretty
> well, the
> new layout and positioning run as expected, cheers :)
> 
> Side note: when the window moved is moved to something like
> half part
> is offscreen and half part is onscreen, when restarted it
> will
> automatically display the whole windows onscreen as closes
> to the
> previous location (half offscreen and half onscreen), Is
> this the
> expected behaviour (IMHO it is good) ?
> 

It sounds like you have your display settings set up for two monitors and perhaps you are using only one monitor at the moment.

I was noticing that this new code doesn't seem to "remember" the last location and size of the application GUI on *nix.

> Cheers
> Tonny Kohar
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