[ggo-discussion] Re: Bugreport: Window is drawn outside the top screen border

At 07:44 AM 02/18/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>I am posting this FAQ entry here in the list because quite some people seem
>to look through this email archive before reporting a bug.
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>6.4 My window is drawn outside the top screen border. Help!
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>For some users the top window titlebar vanishes outside the top screen
>border, so one cannot resize or move the window. This is due to a stupid
>mistake I did with version 0.3.2.
>
>Why does this happen? With release 0.3.2 I implemented a workaround for some
>buggy Linux windowmanagers which misplace Java frames. I added two
>configuration lines in the .ggorc settings file: globalOffsetX and
>globalOffsetY. Unfortunately the default values for the Y offset was -29,
>but should be zero.

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>Release 0.3.4 will not have this bug. I will probably add a check for the
>-29 value so the config file is fixed automatically when upgrading to 0.3.4,
>although that makes the value -29 unusable for the actual purpose of this
>feature.
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>
>  Peter, professional bugproducer (9p in that)

Thanks for the notice, Peter.  I had experienced this behavior as I am one 
of those who came to gGo with v0.3.2, running it under Windows XP 
Pro.  Note however, that when I opened .ggoc to edit the globalOffsetY 
value, it was listed as -24 and not -29.


Matthew Rohn
mdrohn@xxxxxxxxxxx

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