Why does the freakin image window drift down the screen?
In another of a long line of Design Decisions I Regret, xv tries to do all sorts of clever things with regard to the image window’s position on screen. For example, if you issue the Max Size command, xv will position the window so that the window’s contents exactly fill the screen (and the titlebar, frame, etc. are off the edges). Clever when it works, a big pain in the ass when it doesn’t. The popular window managers all seem to have different interpretations of how window-positioning is supposed to be done, and since almost no X programs try this sort of thing, the situation is mostly ignored. xv tries to do a number of clever things to get around the problem, but still fails on occasion. The failure mode generally takes the form of the image window drifting down and to the right as you load new images, resize the window, etc. While it’s hardly a brilliant solution, you can workaround this problem by using the -drift option and X resource.
