Hi;
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:57 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
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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)?
In gnome, screen positioning is the responsibility of the individual
application. There are three different ways that I know of to pre-set
the screen placement of windows. They all use the Xwindows geometry +x
+y flag in one way or another.
1) Many applications, but not all, have a setting in Configuration
Editor for position x and y.
2) In a terminal run AppName --help, A list of commands to add to the
launch command will appear on stdout. Many, but not all, will show flag
like --geometry (or -g) +x+y that can be included with the command
line , or launcher, or menu command that will position the first window
of an application.
3) Install a program called Devil's Pie (devilspie). It will give you
fine grained control over several aspects of window attributes including
window position. Devil's Pie has a bit of a learning curve with only
rudimentary manuals and tutorials. If you are like me and like to keep
your desktop just so, it is worth the learning time.
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Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1