[ icewm-Bugs-2793029 ] winoptions: geometry does not work but startMaximized does

Bugs item #2793029, was opened at 2009-05-17 20:06
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Category: icewm-1.2
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Christof Boeckler (jamesie)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: winoptions: geometry does not work but startMaximized does

Initial Comment:
I want to control startup size and position of an application I use (JASSPA MicroEmacs http://jasspa.com/) and have set up the following line in ~/.icewm/winoptions:

MicroEmacs.startMaximized: 1

This works ok. Then I commented the line and inserted this:

MicroEmacs.geometry: 78x56+804-3
(Note: The size is measured in xterm-characters and not in pixels)

After a restart of IceWM (btw. I use Debian Lenny, i.e. IceWM 1.2.35) the behaviour is as follows:
Either I get a very tiny (approx 50x50 pixels) window that is flipping its size very fast and causing the X server to use all CPU time
or
I get a ridiculously huge window of 399x399+807+1115.

Btw.: I stepped through the source of MicroEmacs and am wondering why the following call returns 0 in my situation:
XrmGetResource( rdb,"MicroEmacs.geometry" ,"MicroEmacs.Geometry" ,&retType,&retVal)
which means that the resource is not found. I would expect the MicroEmacs.geometry resource to be set by IceWM.

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