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lightweight LDXM window manager. No problem at all with a freshly-updated
> Hi Curtis,
>
> yes, you are right, the problem is related to the Window Manager.
>
> I tried with marco/Mate (the default Window Manager of Linux Mint,
> mentioned by Avital) and the ImageJ panel stays in place, even if I call it
> often.
>
> I am using the Unity Window Manager, which is the default for Ubuntu.
>
> I also had a look whether the problem is related to the Global Menu Bar at
> the top of the screen (Unity has one, Mate does not), but this appears not
> to be the case: The width of the Menu Bar is 20 pixels, that of the ImageJ
> title bar is 25 pixels. The windows move down 25 pixels each time.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
> On 31/01/2017 15:52, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Perhaps it has to do with which window manager you run? You could try
>> different ones and see if that makes a difference.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Curtis
>>
>> --
>> Curtis Rueden
>> LOCI software architect -
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>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Michael Schmid <
[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Avital,
>>>
>>> interesting! I have downloaded Oracle Java 1.8.0_66(64 bit) and also this
>>> Java version makes the ImageJ panel move a bit futher down each time I
>>> open
>>> it.
>>> I thought that Linux Mint and Ubuntu are rather similar?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> On 31/01/2017 12:28, Avital Steinberg wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> I have Linux Mint 17 and ImageJ 1.51i Java 1.8.0_66(64 bit), but I
>>>> opened
>>>> ImageJ many times to check if the location of the window changes and for
>>>> me
>>>> it doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Avital
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Michael Schmid <
>>>>
[hidden email]
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> since I have switched to Linux and Java 1.8, each time I open ImageJ,
>>>>> its
>>>>> main panel is about 25 pixels further down on the screen as the last
>>>>> time.
>>>>> I want it at the top, but I have to move it there each time. Same with
>>>>> other panels; especially for panels that I open and close rather often,
>>>>> they wander down the screen, which can be a nuisance.
>>>>>
>>>>> This applies to all java.AWT frames (like the ImageJ main panel,
>>>>> Brightness&Contrast panels, my own PlugInFrames, etc.) as well as to
>>>>> JFrames (the Action Bar by Jerome Mutterer is a JFrame). It seems to
>>>>> me
>>>>> that Frame.getLocation() incorrectly returns the top-left point of the
>>>>> frame contents, ignoring the frame's title bar. setLocation places the
>>>>> top-left corner of the title bar.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone out there have a way to avoid this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ImageJ 1.51j16; Java 1.8.0_112 [64-bit]; Linux 4.4.0-59-generic (Ubuntu
>>>>> 16, Oracle Java packed with ImageJ; OpenJDK 1.8.9_121 shows the same)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>
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