From: Yuri Karaban <suckl...@dev97.com> Hello,
Currently st does not follow X geometry specification. Implementation is incomplete and partially broken: - There is calculation of offset parameters, but these parameters are never saved in window manager hints. Therefore setting offsets has no effect. - Instead of specifying initial geometry, current implementation locks window dimensions to specified geometry and window becomes unresizable. - Current implementation interprets window dimensions as pixels, while common practice for text oriented applications (like terminals and editors) is to treat witdh and height as rows and columns. XWMGeometry(3) function is interpreting the width and height as multipliers for width increment and height increment hints. Also xwininfo(1) is showing geometry in rows and columns if window have resize increment hints. And finally width and height in pixels don't make sense for the window with discrete dimensions. I suspect that suckless community is predominantly using tiling window managers which by their nature is ignoring geometry hints. Therefore those problems could be unnoticed. I created a patch to address aforementioned problems. With this patch it's possible to configure dimensions and placement like for any other X application. For example: st -g 80x50+0+0 # open 80x50 window aligned to upper left corner st -g 80x30-0-0 # open 80x30 window aligned to lower bottom corner st -g 80x25+200-100 # open 80x25 window 200px from left and 100px from bottom Yuri Karaban (1): Honor X geometry specifications st.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) -- 1.9.2
