Compiz always place new windows at left-top corner

Iven Hsu, you can find a workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-core/+bug/874146/comments/29

@mc-return

Hi, I'm not using multimonitor and unity, are you sure they're same bugs?

@ivenvd

Then it is probably not the same bug, I'll remove the duplicate status.

Hi,

We have the same problem in mageia, both in version 0.9.7.x and 0.9.8.x. Regardless of the option the window are always put on top left corner and the option changes automatically when selected.

See : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7720

Regards.
Julien

I'm building compiz from bzr and I experience the same bug in Arch Linux with XFCE.

This happens in both lp:compiz/0.9.8 and lp:compiz branches.

- Lauching compiz with compiz --replace ccp with gtk-window-decorator
- The .config/compiz-1/compizconfig/Default.ini contains the following entry:
[place]
s0_mode = 5
The s0_mode entry changes fine according to the different methods but has no effect.

All my windows are always placed in the top-left corner at 0,0. It even goes under the toolbar that I have on top on my screen even though the constain Y option is enabled for moving windows.

If I revert to the 0.8 series included in my distro, then the bug dissapears. (Huge differences between the two obviously)

Finally, a couple of months ago, this issue also exhibited itself but the window would instead always maximize.

Just for reference, I used the following package to build compiz https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/co/compiz-bzr/PKGBUILD . This is just to get an idea on the build commands.

Also, it seems that those who are seeing this bug are not using Unity.

I have this bug on Gentoo 64-bit and compiz 0.9.8.6. Among the plugins I use there are also others which work incorrectly that may be related to this: the resize info and snapping windows plugins do not work for newly created windows, only for windows that are present at plugin load time. This could also be the case for the place windows plugin, as it does nothing to existing windows.

Seems fixed in latest bzr version, anyone can confirm this?

Iven,

If you're using a newish version of cmake then it was resolved as bug 1085581.

For me it isn't fixed. I've just tried the rev 3528 on Arch, using the script from #6. Also, I made a similar script for Slackware and built the package with cmake-2.8.8. On both system I have the issue described by Iven.

I rechecked CCSM on my system, and found the bug of the CCSM option still exists. However, new windows isn't placed at left-top corner any longer. Dialogs appear in the middle of their parent windows.

How about you, Robert?

That happens only if I change the s0_mode to 4 in the ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/Default.ini. The dialogs are in middle, and the new windows open randomly I think, but not at the top-left corner. When I change the placement options in CCSM, the s0_mode becomes 2, 5 or empty in Default.ini. No way to get 4.
Also, I miss the centered option, that's the one I was using for long time in the earlier versions.

I can confirm that it is fixed for me on Gentoo, at least for the place/resizeinfo/snap plugins. I compiled 0.9.9~daily12.12.05-0ubuntu2 and the plugins worked. It was not fixed in 0.9.8 (bzr 3429), but after patching 0.9.8 with http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz-team/compiz/0.9.9/revision/3500 the plugins worked. (Though the window place mode selection in ccsm is broken, but that's just a minor annoyance for me.)

yes, this one is definitely fixed.