On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:14:23AM -0400, des...@verizon.net wrote: > Harald Dunkel <harald.dun...@aixigo.de> writes: > > > On 04/29/10 13:27, Thomas Adam wrote: > >> > >> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/107947 > > > > Seems to work, many thanx. > > > > How comes? The registered position in the VMware > > preferences file doesn't seem invalid. Even if it > > would be off-screen, Alt-Tab should list it. > > If that was the geometry that the application requested, > Fvwm would have no problem placing it there. > > I'm guessing VMware does something with that geometry that causes > it to not create the window at all.
Precisely. I was unable to find out through debugging how the window is being placed/resized, but if it's doing something using EWMH (which might make sense -- xev showed a large number of PropertyNotify events, which is generally a good precursor to that sort of thing), then FVWM will try and honour that. This is why twm is a pretty bad choice of WM to have used -- that doesn't under anything EWMH-related which might be relevant. It's hard to tell at this point -- but I am willing to put this down to a bug in vmware-player. But all I can do is guess anyway, as I don't have the source. :) -- Thomas Adam -- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
