On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:32 +0100
Ron Yorston <rmy(a)tigress.co.uk> wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
>When I start a new program in Gnome, it positions the new window at the
>top left of the screen. Is there a way to tell it to use some other
>location (e.g., center)?
The Gnome window manager, metacity, positions windows automatically and
offers no control. I maintain a patch to metacity that allows windows
to be positioned manually:
http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/metacity/index.html
RPMs for Fedora and RHEL are available there.
Ron
Where are the times when we can specify the X11 -geometry ;-(
Linux, great operating system with the more and more windoze like gui
crap.
Bob