Subject: Bug#4267: xosview doesn't understand -geometry very well

From: Richard Kettlewell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 17:36:08 +0100 (BST)

Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-1

I ran xosview with this command:

    xosview -geometry 48x48+388+0 &

and indeed from xlsclients -l:

    Window 0x2800002:
      Machine:  sfere
      Name:  xosview@sfere
      Icon Name:  xosview@sfere
      Command:  xosview -geometry 48x48+388+0
      Instance/Class:  xosview/xosview

...but (as you can see below) the window is not in the correct
position:

    xwininfo: Window id: 0x2800002 "xosview@sfere"

      Absolute upper-left X:  392
      Absolute upper-left Y:  3
      Relative upper-left X:  0
      Relative upper-left Y:  0
      Width: 48
      Height: 48
      Depth: 8
      Visual Class: PseudoColor
      Border width: 0
      Class: InputOutput
      Colormap: 0x26 (installed)
      Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
      Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
      Backing Store State: NotUseful
      Save Under State: no
      Map State: IsViewable
      Override Redirect State: no
      Corners:  +392+3  -160+3  -160-399  +392-399
      -geometry 48x48+390+1

Sometimes xosview positions itself near, but not exactly in, the right
place; sometimes it positions itself in the upper left corner of the
screen; and occasionally it even ends up in the right place.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell   [email-masked]   [email-masked]
                             http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/

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From: [email-masked] (joost witteveen)
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 20:34:35 +0200 (MET DST)

>     xosview -geometry 48x48+388+0 &

xosview does not confirm to most X standards.

It really isn't a very nice programme.

The upstream maintainer says he will some time start using the
standard Xt interface, but he didn't say when.

Xosview-1.4.1 AFAIK doesn't use it.

I'm closing this bug, as I cannot do anything about it, and
the upstream maintainer doesn't care.

Thanks anyway,

-- 
joost witteveen
            [email-masked]
          [email-masked]
--
Use Debian/GNU Linux!

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:24:53 -0500 (CDT)

> the upstream maintainer doesn't care.

Those aren't appropriate reasons for closing bugs.  Hopefully one day
the bug will really be resolved.

(reopening the bug)

Guy