[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#507583: Bug#507583: weird window placement/handling

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:37:27PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > When I start virt-manager on my dual-head display with the awesome
> > window manager, it pops up in the top left corner of head 0,
> > independent of where it was started. It does not get an entry in the
> > window manager's window table and cannot be moved or resized. It
> > appears as if the dialog is modal and does not respect the window
> > manager's desktops (tags).
> I just tried things with awesome and it looks o.k. here. virt-manager
> shows up in awesome's "title bar" in the upper right corner and dialogs
> are shown on top of the main window. I'm not running dual head though.
> Could you verify if virt-manager works better on single head?
> Could you attach your awesome configuration?
I think I just found the dialog problem you describe. Basically the
dialogs show  up correctly the first time but not there after. They also
stay in the window list. Seems vmm isn't tearing down the dialogs.
 -- Guido