[PyQt] Dialog Window's Position Offset

Brent Villalobos Brent.Villalobos at pdi.dreamworks.com
Tue Oct 13 22:09:51 BST 2009


FYI, there was a ticket to Nokia about this issue and it was closed 
citing that it is a bug in GNOME's window manager.
http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=107952

Brent Villalobos wrote:
> Thanks.  I recall reading that document a long time ago and it didn't 
> "click" until now.  Unfortunately, it looks like I fall into that 
> category of window managers where QWidget.pos() will just return the 
> wrong value at times for certain windows.
>
> Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>> Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 schrieb Brent Villalobos:
>>  
>>> Thanks for the response Baz.  I'm trying to save a window's position
>>> when I close a window.  I would think that the position recorded on my
>>> last move event would be the one recorded on the window's close event.
>>> The fact that it is not points to an issue either with Qt, PyQt, or my
>>> window manager.  It isn't a good situation when you can't trust the
>>> pos() method for a window.  Since you're getting normal results, I'm
>>> starting to think that the window manager is to blame, not PyQt or Qt.
>>> FYI, I am on Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5.3 with PyQt v4.4.4 and Qt 
>>> v4.4.3
>>>     
>>
>> Brent, you didn't mention, what you were after until now. Please run 
>> assistant and search for "Window Geometry".
>>
>> Pete
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