width & height statements in rc.xml, work for anyone?

[Lew_Rockwell_fan]

This began here:
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36621
But my understanding has increased and nether the original thread title, nor my statement of the problem is accurate. To correct that and to put this in the 0-answers category again I'm starting anew.

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<width>1300</width>
<height>500</height>

in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml are completely innefectualfor me, despite using <position force="yes">. If anyone has gotten them to work, I'd like to hear about it. Position statements in the same stanzas, specifying the location of the upper left corner, DO work, so the stanzas are not being totally ignored. I was mistaken earlier in thinking Mirage an exception. I have found NO exceptions. Opening SIZE seems to be determined primarily by the size the ap was last closed at. It may differ SLIGHTLY from this, a difference on the order of 5 pixels or so. I suspect this is because there are ap-specific "preferences" about INCREMENTS in window size, so the new size may differ slightly from the closeing size if the ap was adjusted to a size in between the "prefered" increments. But that's a side issue, mainly significant because it's a source of confusion. Whatever DOES determine the opening size, rc.xml clearly does not.

I'm hoping soneone here has a contrary experience and can tell me that THEIR rc.xml size statements work. Because then maybe I can figure out why their's do and mine don't. But I'm not expecting this - I've concluded this just doesn't work and is a bug. I've searched the bug list and it's not there. I tried to report it but I wasn't able to open a bugzilla account here:
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/createaccount.cgi
It kept saying it had sent me an email to confirm but I never got one. I tried with 3 different email addresses. If anyone feels like reporting it, that would be a good thing.

If you're interested, some more details of my thoughts on the problem and a possible workaround are posted here:
http://icculus.org/pipermail/openbox/20 ... 08421.html