KWin dialog placement

[Cristian Tibirna]

On Saturday, 14 September 2002 16:40, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> What is the preferred way to tell kwin that it should place a dialog _NEXT_
> to its mainwindow instead of _ON TOP_ of its mainwindow?

There isn't a standard one, AFAIK.

You can always use setGeometry(<computed x-y position>) before show(). You 
compute the position from the one of the parent. If the window manager 
agrees, it will place the dialog as you like. The window manager can disagree 
if you try to place the dialog partly outside the desktop or on top of a 
docked window. Unfortunately, I'm not sure (didn't examine the kwin code for 
this lately).

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