On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 22:09, Bill Bradford wrote: > I keep my main panel (what MS would call the "taskbar," I think) on the > left side of the screen instead of the bottom, and application windows > in FC1 have always opened with the left side of their windows abutting > the edge of that panel, which made perfect sense. > > For some unknown reason Firefox has suddenly started to open up with its > window aligned with the left side of the *screen*, so the left side of > the firefox window is *under* the panel, which is highly aggravating. > > Since other apps are still opening properly, this may be something > specific to firefox, but the search terms I can think of to describe it > don't turn up much on google, and Fedora (or gnome) was clearly > controlling this behavior originally. Does anyone have any ideas on why > this is happening or how to control it? > Firefox may explicitly set its initial window position, but be too unsophisticated to notice the panel there. If you run "xprop" and click on the firefox window, the section WM_NORMAL_HINTS may indicate "program specified position" or "user specified position" which would create this problem. I don't have firefox installed at the moment or I'd check. Havoc
