[H-GEN] How do X Windows know where to pop up?

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:

> Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> > Incidentally I could just *kill* the ever-so-clever GTK folks who
> >decided they didn't want to support pesky things like --geometry.  As
> >if X application didn't have enough consistency problems already.
> Wow, thanks for that little bit of information.  I had been working up
> to learning GTK as a chance to move away from the rather dated Tk
> stuff I've been using for what seems like decades -- but stupid shit
> like that is a real show stopper as far as I'm concerned.

I think there is a small set of options which are common to all GTK
apps but it's nowhere nearly as useful as the Xt stuff, in my
opinion.

> What are they smoking?

I put it down to a bad case of "not invented here", though to their
credit it couldn't have been easy to write a whole new X widget set.
-- 
``I didn't program you for sarcasm.''

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