Re: [rox-devel] GVim oddity

[Tony H. <h...@re...>]

In <200...@we...>, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:

> -- Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote
> (on Tuesday, 08 June 2004, 09:40 PM +0100):
> > I noticed that if OroboROX opens a gvim window near the bottom of the
> > screen (you probably need to use the open under pointer option to
> > reproduce this) it opens too far down so part of its status line, about
> > the thickness of the window border, is obscured off the bottom of the
> > screen. Vim is the only program I've tried which does this. I expect
> > it's connected with <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133145>;
> > developers of both vim and metacity think it's a wm bug.
> 
> I've noticed the same behaviour in xfwm4 (also an oroborus derivative).
> However, this changed for me on a new gentoo install. I see the
> behaviour on my home machine, which uses xfwm4 4.0.4 with gvim 6.2. On
> my work machine, which uses xfwm4 4.0.5 with gvim 6.2, the problem is
> gone. 
> 
> You might look in that code tree to see if you can find what the xfce
> team may have done that would have alleviated the problem.

I can't see anything relevant in the Changelog. How convenient would it
be for you to upgrade your home machine to the newer xfwm4 to confirm
it?

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