Re: [Matplotlib-users] Odd Mac OS X X11/WM problem - Conclusion

[Daishi H. <da...@eg...>]

On Apr 4, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Daishi Harada wrote:
> FWIW, twm seems to be the only WM that works for me.
> I tried Xorg with fvwm, windowmaker, metacity, and blackbox -
> none of these seem to work. (All of this is through fink.)

The culprit was the fact that I have a dual display setup
where the two displays aren't of the same size. This
made my display region not rectangular, and in particular
I had a undisplayable "hole" in the upper left-hand region
of the rectangular bounding box of my two screens.
Hence when a X11 window was auto-mapped to somewhere
near +0+0, it was rendered into a void. I'm not sure if
the "fault" is with XDarwin or the window managers.
The reason twm seemed to "work" was because twm
doesn't automap any new windows unless explicitly
set by -geometry, and initializes the window placement
operation with the current mouse cursor location.

I'm surprised I hadn't been bit by this previously, but
then I've never entirely understood the window auto-
placement algorithm used by most windowmanagers.

d