kdialog ignores window geometry?

[bennettp]

Hi,

I'm trying to get kdialog to show a passive popup window at the bottom right corner of the screen, but it seems to ignore the --geometry option (of course, perhaps I just don't know what I'm doing ). Here's my command:

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kdialog --title "This is a passive popup" --passivepopup "It will disappear in about 1 second" 1 --geometry "100x100-10-10"

Ok, so it ignores the window sizes (which is a good thing), but why ignore XOFF and YOFF? Any help/suggestions appreciated.

[hjnenc]

I don't use kdialog, so I don't really know. But the 'standard' X option is '-geometry' instead of '--geometry'.

[bennettp]

-geometry is the X options, --geometry is the kde option.

After looking into it, the support of the --geometry option is only fairly new to kdialog, and "the passivepopup code is a mess". Oh well.

Edit: decided to use xosd instead, with the xosd_cat command. If anyone's interested,

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#!/bin/bash

unset song_old state_old
popup_time=3
poll_interval=0.5
font="-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-320-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"

cmd="osd_cat -f $font -O 1 -c green -A center -p bottom -d $popup_time -o 100"

while [ "true" ]
do
        current="$(mpc --format '[[%artist% - ]%title%];|[%file];')"
        song="$(echo $current | awk -F\; '{ print $1 }')"
        state="$(echo $current | sed -e 's/^.*[[]//' | sed -e 's/[]].*$//')"

        if [ "$song" != "$song_old" ] || [ "$state" != "$state_old" ]; then
                echo "[$state] $song" | $cmd
                state_old="$state"
                song_old="$song"
        fi
sleep $poll_interval
done

Its a bash script that runs as a daemon. It polls mpd and shows info at the bottom of the screen. Who knows, maybe I'll port it to C...