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+
+/*!
+    \page restoring-geometry.html
+    \title Restoring a Window's Geometry
+
+    \ingroup best-practices
+
+	This document describes how to save and restore a window's
+    geometry using the geometry properties. On Windows, this is 
+    basically storing the result of QWidget::geometry() and calling
+    QWidget::setGeometry() in the next session before calling
+    \l{QWidget::show()}{show()}.
+
+    On X11, this won't work because an invisible window doesn't have
+    a frame yet. The window manager will decorate the window later.
+    When this happens, the window shifts towards the bottom/right
+    corner of the screen depending on the size of the decoration frame.
+    Although X provides a way to avoid this shift, most window managers
+    fail to implement this feature.
+
+    Since version 4.2, Qt provides functions that saves and restores a
+    window's geometry and state for you. QWidget::saveGeometry()
+    saves the window geometry and maximized/fullscreen state, while
+    QWidget::restoreGeometry() restores it. The restore function also
+    checks if the restored geometry is outside the available screen
+    geometry, and modifies it as appropriate if it is.
+
+    If those functions are not available or cannot be used, then a
+    workaround is to call \l{QWidget::setGeometry()}{setGeometry()}
+    after \l{QWidget::show()}{show()}. This has the two disadvantages
+    that the widget appears at a wrong place for a millisecond
+    (results in flashing) and that currently only every second window
+    manager gets it right. A safer solution is to store both
+    \l{QWidget::pos()}{pos()} and \l{QWidget::size()}{size()} and to
+    restore the geometry using \l{QWidget::resize()} and
+    \l{QWidget::move()}{move()} before calling
+    \l{QWidget::show()}{show()}, as demonstrated in the following
+    code snippets (from the \l{mainwindows/application}{Application}
+    example):
+
+    \snippet examples/mainwindows/application/mainwindow.cpp 35
+    \codeline
+    \snippet examples/mainwindows/application/mainwindow.cpp 38
+
+    This method works on Windows, Mac OS X, and most X11 window
+    managers.
+*/