Re: [PATCH] gitk: don't save the geometry to rc file on exit

also sprach Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] [2008.03.06.1317 +0100]:

Here's a patch for people to test.  It only restores the width and
height, and limits the width and height to be at most the width and
height of the screen.  It seems to work fine under X; I would be
interested to know what happens under macos and windows.

I can confirm that the behaviour is much better: the window size is
restored, as is the position, but it gives preference to the
Xinerama head. You'd think it restores at the same *relative*
position on the current head, but it actually just restores
somewhere — I cannot figure out the behaviour.

However, I still wonder why we have to do this at all. I understand
that Cygwin has issues and needs this code, but couldn't it then be
made to run only on Cygwin, such that on "proper" Unix systems, the
config file is *not* updated every time I move the window before
closing the application? As I said earlier, this is really the job
of a window manager, *not* a configuration option. If your window
manager cannot restore the window to a size you control, then it's
broken. Let's not hack applications to work around that, please.

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