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authorhjk <hjk121@nokiamail.com>2014-09-24 11:21:06 +0200
committerhjk <hjk121@nokiamail.com>2014-10-20 12:47:25 +0200
commit0c71cbea5472191ca5131e18b3f676eae8a51bf4 (patch)
tree5e117897b282908ab6299cf5c1cc7f73f8766cf0 /src/corelib/io
parent2679c5f7e03185ab0cc9018c59c725c52804c0e9 (diff)
Add a hint on application window positioning with QProcess::start
Task-number: QTBUG-30999 Change-Id: I65c80917c9bad067bb7d8e69e2431dd1c4886b08 Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@digia.com> Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com> Reviewed-by: Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn@theqtcompany.com>
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-rw-r--r--src/corelib/io/qprocess.cpp7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qprocess.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qprocess.cpp
index e009191be9..e76a836954 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qprocess.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qprocess.cpp
@@ -538,6 +538,13 @@ void QProcessPrivate::Channel::clear()
setWorkingDirectory(). By default, processes are run in the
current working directory of the calling process.
+ The positioning and the screen Z-order of windows belonging to
+ GUI applications started with QProcess are controlled by
+ the underlying windowing system. For Qt 5 applications, the
+ positioning can be specified using the \c{-qwindowgeometry}
+ command line option; X11 applications generally accept a
+ \c{-geometry} command line option.
+
\note On QNX, setting the working directory may cause all
application threads, with the exception of the QProcess caller
thread, to temporarily freeze during the spawning process,