233449 - new windows always request (0,0) for positioning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 209342

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian Tarricone]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040110 Firebird/0.8.0+

new windows always appear at (0,0) (top-left corner of the screen) and there is
no way to override this, save for using a window manager that allows the user to
manually position windows.  this happens with any non-transient window created,
not just browser windows.  on a side note, thunderbird also sticks all its
windows in the top left, and although i haven't checked a recent build, mozilla
as of a few months ago exhibits this bad behavior as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open several new windows


Actual Results:  
all windows appear in the top left corner of the screen.

Expected Results:  
either allow the window manager to position the window, by not explicitly
requesting a location (preferred), or come up with a better algorithm to
position windows (too much effort when this should be the WM's job anyway).

running 'xprop' on new windows does indeed seem to indicate that firebird
windows are requesting (0,0) as their position:

WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                program specified location: 0, 0
                program specified minimum size: 0 by 0
                window gravity: NorthWest

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Works fine on Windows.

Comment 2

[Benedikt Meurer]

100% reproducible with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5)
Gecko/20040204. From what I figured out so far, it broke when I switched from
Gtk 1.2 based Mozilla to Gtk 2 based Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Rodrigo]

Same behaviour using Mozilla 1.6 on Linux. All opened windows of Mozilla start
at (0,0). Manual window positioning with WindowMaker works with all other
windows BUT Mozilla's.

Comment 4

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** Bug 233569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Same behaviour using Mozilla 1.6 on Linux.

Off to Browser!

Comment 6

[Brian Tarricone]

i don't know why my initial search didn't come up with it, but i just found bug
#209342, of which this is certainly a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209342 ***