Window placement outside of screen working area

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. set mintty to rows=40 (or more) but make sure mintty can fit into the 
desktop working area
2. open mintty multiple times

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected: whole mintty window is inside desktop working area
actual result: part of mintty window is outside desktop working area, due to 
windows' stupid auto placement

What versions of mintty, Cygwin/MSYS, and Windows are you using?
Cygwin: 1.7
mintty: 0.7.1, 0.8.1
OS: windows XP

Original issue reported on code.google.com by xue...@gmail.com on 13 Aug 2010 at 4:55

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 13 Aug 2010 at 11:32

• Changed title: Window placement outside of screen working area
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-Medium

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Partially fixed in r968 on trunk. The window may still get obscured by the 
taskbar, though.

A workaround for this issue is to use the --position command line option to 
always open the window at a suitable position.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 15 Aug 2010 at 8:37

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Should be fully fixed in r970 on trunk.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 15 Aug 2010 at 10:56

• Changed state: Fixed
• Added labels: Difficulty-Medium, Milestone-0.9

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is this fix backport to 0.8.3?
i can still reproduce it with 0.8.3

size: 80cols * 40 rows
size from spyxx: rect: 747x796, client rect: 722x762
font: consolas, 12-point

Original comment by xue...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2010 at 2:31

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No, the fix is in 0.9 only. It depends on other changes, so risk/benefit is too 
high for a bugfix release.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 8 Sep 2010 at 5:35

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 3 Oct 2010 at 3:39

• Changed state: Verified