launch applications always in the same position/same monitor

[Frederic Muller]

Hi!

I'm looking for the above mainly for Thunderbird (which a web search
didn't give me much) but would be happy to do with other apps, under
GNOME 3.

Any idea if this is even possible?

Thank you.

Fred

ps: I mentioned same monitor as actually when switching 1 monitor
orientation from landscape to portrait then half of my apps change
monitor.... should I file a bug or is it to little a problem to even bother?

[Ed Greshko]

On 2020-08-27 11:30, Frederic Muller wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking for the above mainly for Thunderbird (which a web search
> didn't give me much) but would be happy to do with other apps, under
> GNOME 3.
>
> Any idea if this is even possible?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fred
>
> ps: I mentioned same monitor as actually when switching 1 monitor
> orientation from landscape to portrait then half of my apps change
> monitor.... should I file a bug or is it to little a problem to even bother?

Caveat, I'm not a GNOME user.  I use KDE where this is done natively.  :-)

But, you may want to give

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1323/window-session-manager/

at try.

It claims....

An indicator that let's you save and restore your open apps and the window positions and arrangements over multiple real and virtual displays. Requires lwsm and nodejs to be installed (`npm install -g linux-window-session-manager`).

[Thomas Klein]

> I'm looking for the above mainly for Thunderbird (which a web search
> didn't give me much) but would be happy to do with other apps, under
> GNOME 3.
>
> Any idea if this is even possible?

Hi,
there's a gnome extension that is more or less capable of doing this:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/16/auto-move-windows/

The reason I'm saying "more or less" is that it didn't work here for all kind of windows, in my case kdenlive didn't seem to care. Might be because it's KDE-born, nut sure. But it worked for Thunderbird :)

HTH, Thomas

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 11:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-08-27 11:30, Frederic Muller wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm looking for the above mainly for Thunderbird (which a web search
> > didn't give me much) but would be happy to do with other apps, under
> > GNOME 3.
> >
> > Any idea if this is even possible?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > ps: I mentioned same monitor as actually when switching 1 monitor
> > orientation from landscape to portrait then half of my apps change
> > monitor.... should I file a bug or is it to little a problem to even bother?
>
> Caveat, I'm not a GNOME user.  I use KDE where this is done natively.  :-)
>
> But, you may want to give
>
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1323/window-session-manager/
>
> at try.
>
> It claims....
>
> An indicator that let's you save and restore your open apps and the window positions and arrangements over multiple real and virtual displays. Requires lwsm and nodejs to be installed (`npm install -g linux-window-session-manager`).

I've been using https://github.com/zepalmer/script-vdr though only on
one monitor. I use it when saving and restoring my KDE session, but
only on X11. YMMV.

poc