I'm using fvwm to manage a few applications but I want the other applications to be treated as if there is no window manager running. I have nearly achieved this, but I'm running into some trouble with some dialogs.
When there is no window manager running, these dialogs appear centered over the main application. But when I have fvwm running, these dialogs appear at the top left of the screen. If it makes any difference, the application is a Qt 4 application, and I was able to reproduce it with a simple Qt 4 application (included below). Here is a simplified version of my .fvwm2rc (I verified that it exhibits the same behavior): ################################################# # Make fvwm act like X without a window manager # ################################################# # Get rid of the title bar and borders. Style * !Title, !Borders # Don't go to other pages when the mouse gets to the edge of the screen. EdgeThickness 0 # Don't do anything special when a transient window is created. Style * DontStackTransientParent # This makes all new windows appear at the top left corner unless they specifically ask for a # certain place on the screen. Style * PositionPlacement # Don't give the user any way to change focus. Style * NeverFocus Obviously, the problem is that the PositionPlacement style is taking effect on these dialog windows, but I couldn't find an fvwm placement style that worked the same way X works when no window manager is present. Thanks for any help, suggestions, or pointers, -Tom Panning P.S. Here's the Qt 4 code, in case anyone cares: #include <QApplication> #include <QWidget> #include <QDialog> int main(int argc, char** argv) { QApplication app(argc, argv); QWidget* win = new QWidget; win->setFixedSize(400, 300); QDialog* dialog = new QDialog(win); dialog->setAutoFillBackground(true); QPalette myPalette = dialog->palette(); myPalette.setColor(dialog->backgroundRole(), Qt::blue); dialog->setPalette(myPalette); dialog->setFixedSize(100, 50); win->show(); dialog->show(); return app.exec(); }