No sane default position for floating windows

[kcburge]

If you have two screens, new windows in floating layout can appear offscreen and inaccessible.

The below patch on 3.5 branch fixed it for me (borrowed from awesome's original rc.lua).

diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 8e7a760..631e7d9 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -756,6 +756,14 @@ function match(c, startup)
     awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
   end

+  if not startup then
+     -- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
+     if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
+        awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
+        awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
+     end
+  end
+
   local sel = awful.tag.selectedlist(target_screen)
   if not target_tag_names or #target_tag_names == 0 then
     -- if not matched to some names try putting

[mpalmi]

@kcburge It's tough to tell what the patch was intended to look like, as both "+" and "-" show up as bullets when pasted raw. Perhaps you could wrap the diff in <pre> tags, so that people can see the actual diff.

[kcburge]

FWIW, I just confirmed that this patch is still in my branch off of shifty, which has been modified to work with newer awesome versions.

[mpalmi]

Awesome. Thanks for the quick response!