Geometry Problems -- *Negative* screen placement of windows

[fredex]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:59:55PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> GnuCash (2.0.1-4.rhel4) sometimes gets it into its mind to pop up
> windows and dialogs with a *negative* y placement.  This makes it
> difficult to move to the window, since the window manager title bar is
> off the top of the display. Is there some way to fix this?  Or is this a
> known bug.
> 
> I am using CentOS 4.4, using the RHEL4 RPM downloaded from redhat.
> 
> I am NOT using a Gnome or KDE desktop -- I am using fvwm2 in mwm
> compatibility mode.

I don't know WHY it does it, or HOW TO FIX IT, but when it happens it's
easy to work around,... just put the mouse pointer somewhere within the
visible portion of the window, press and hold ALT then left-click-drag
the window to where you want it.

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                         While we were still sinners, 
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