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Bug 1377805 - Positioning aspect of --geometry argument ignored
Summary: Positioning aspect of --geometry argument ignored
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mate-terminal
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wolfgang Ulbrich
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-20 16:07 UTC by Rick Dicaire
Modified: 2016-10-21 15:54 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.fc24 mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.fc23 mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.el7
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Last Closed: 2016-10-01 04:20:48 UTC
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Description Rick Dicaire 2016-09-20 16:07:27 UTC 
Description of problem:

Cannot place window in specific position any longer using --geometry

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

mate-terminal-1.14.1-2.fc24.x86_64

How reproducible:

mate-terminal --geometry=113x56-66+33 used to place the terminal window about halfway from left, now places it at top left.

This is the same issue I reported at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369939 for xfce4-terminal.

mate-terminal --geometry=113x56-66+33
xwininfo 

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x4600beb "Terminal - ardy@daw3:~"

  Absolute upper-left X:  5
  Absolute upper-left Y:  55
  Relative upper-left X:  5
  Relative upper-left Y:  22
  Width: 906
  Height: 866
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0xb5
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x4600006 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +5+55  -1009+55  -1009-159  +5-159
  -geometry 113x56+0+33


Steps to Reproduce:
1. mate-terminal --geometry=113x56-66+33
2.
3.

Actual results:

Window placed at top left.

Expected results:

Terminal window to be placed in position desired.

Additional info:

When I first experienced this problem with xfce4-terminal, I installed mate-terminal and modified my script to use it instead of xfce4-terminal to start multiple terminal windows in specific positions. This worked fine. When xfce4-terminal was patched, I reverted back to xfce4-terminal. I decided to test mate-terminal today and found it ignored positioning.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2016-09-23 06:52:21 UTC 
mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-3146ef4e32
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-09-23 08:00:12 UTC 
mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-734d91a4c1
Comment 3 Rick Dicaire 2016-09-23 14:10:53 UTC 
Tested and appears to work as expected.

/usr/bin/mate-terminal --geometry 113x56-86+33

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x4a000ea "Terminal - ardy@daw3:~"

  Absolute upper-left X:  922
  Absolute upper-left Y:  55
  Relative upper-left X:  5
  Relative upper-left Y:  22
  Width: 906
  Height: 866
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0xb5
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x4a00006 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +922+55  -92+55  -92-159  +922-159
  -geometry 113x56-86+33
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-09-27 03:51:23 UTC 
mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-09-28 16:19:10 UTC 
mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-c3480ee6c6
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-10-01 04:20:48 UTC 
mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-10-21 15:54:19 UTC 
mate-terminal-1.14.1-3.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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