From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:41:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] gitk: Explicitly position popup windows.
Message-ID: <18685.49152.25344.398737@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <1223449540-20457-8-git-send-email-angavrilov@gmail.com>

Alexander Gavrilov writes:

> For some reason, on Windows all transient windows are placed
> in the upper left corner of the screen. Thus, it is necessary
> to explicitly position the windows using the tk::PlaceWindow
> function.

Hmmm, this is not part of the official Tk API as far as I can see, and
having to call tk::PlaceWindow on every window we create is a bit
gross.  What exactly does it do, and what effect will this change have
on Linux?  Are you sure there isn't some other way to fix the problem?

Paul.