[xmonad] mplayer moves 1 step right and 1 step down

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Carsten Mattner <
carstenmattner at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Carsten Mattner
> > <carstenmattner at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> If I return mplayer from fullscreen the floating window
> >> moves 1 step right and 1 step down. Didn't measure how
> >> many pixels it moves.
> >
> > Known, difficult to fix.
> >  http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=431
>
> Does it happen with any other applications? Sounds like changing
> MPlayer's fullscreen mode wouldn't make a difference.
>
> What's the difficulty?
>

It's not related to mplayer at all, but to the way borders interact with
floating windows and inappropriately relying on the saved window position.
 In short, when the position of a floating window is (re)computed, it gets
shifted by the border width.  (It's more complicated than this, but that's
the gist.  The actual details involve the inner workings of
XMonad.Operations.windows.)

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