blbates@AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) (03/26/91)
This message is mainly directed at SGI people, however, I would like comments from others. I find it an annoyance when I select Size=>Previous from a wsh window and it doesn't put the window in the previous position. The size is changed back, but it isn't put back in the same location. For example I have a small window and I enlarge it by changing the upper left corner. If I then select previous, I would expect that corner to move back to its original position. However, what actually happens is the the window is returned to the previous size with the lower left corner NEVER moving. All resizing is done with the lower left corner remaining in its current position. Now this may be a mute point with SGI going to X, but if it isn't, it should be fixed. Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 Phone:(804) 864-2854 FAX:(804) 864-6792 E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov
kipp@warp.esd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman) (03/27/91)
Under a-yet-to-be-numbered future software release, the one where we ship X as the window server, wsh supports an "anchor point" option which specifies which corner of the window should be anchored during size changes. If this is used in conjunction with a particular window manager the results are usually good. Its not quite ideal, but it does help. kipp