Show window size/position on resize/move

I know this is old but would be nice to have and could not find a related setting: showing window dimension while moving/resizing.

added 2. Feature 5. Window Placement / Position labels

removed 5. Window Placement / Position label

added 5. Window Moving / Dragging 5. Window Resizing labels

I'm missing this feature as well.

It's really needed sometimes e.g. when you need to record an app for a different resolution screen.

FWIW the code should be there alreay, it's just a compilation option (-DSHOW_POSITION)

xfwm4-4.16.1 doesn't have this option, which release does?

Also I fail to see any releases here ( https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/releases ) in XFCE's gitlab.

Looks like releases can only be found here: https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwm4/4.16/

It is a build option, not a runtime option.

Releases are on xfce.org website.

The option is well hidden and can only be found in the source code: src/moveresize.c and src/poswin.c.

It would be great if you exposed it somewhere (README, configure, etc).

Which means the bug still stands :-)

Since lots of people ask for it, let's make it a configurable feature

Here's a patch for enabling this at compile-time via configure (--enable-poswin)

How about additionally introducing an xfconf property (e.g. /general/show_position)? So downstream packagers can build Xfwm4 with this option enabled and still offer a runtime configuration for their users who don't like it and find it annoying. For example, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1014212.

Just in general, having it as an easily accessible, changeable option makes more sense. What if the same user gets fed up with it? What if they wanted to try this option but didn't like it?

That would require just wrapping the relevant parts of the code with if (xfconf_channel_get_bool (channel, "/general/show_position", FALSE)) statements, right?

This was actually what I intented to do next.

https://gitlab.xfce.org/metux/xfwm4/-/commits/wip/poswin