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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)?
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Steve
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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.
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
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:32 +0100 Ron Yorston rmy@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
2009/9/3 Bob Marcan bob.marcan@gmail.com:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:32 +0100 Ron Yorston rmy@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.
If you are using Compiz to give shinyness and you have Compiz Config Settings Manager installed (yum install ccsm), you may be able to go to System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> CompizConfig Settings Manager. Once you are in, investigate the "Place Windows" plugin, which may do a limited amount of what you want.
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