On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 06:51 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: > 2008/9/18 lostson <lostson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:30 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: > >> there is simply no good way to do this in an > >> automated way at present. > >> > [...] > > I am mostly concerned with > > just the main window. For instance when i start Xchat it always starts > > in the upper left corner where I want it to be. I don't know the reason > > it does but it does. When say for instance I have xchat open on my > > desktop and that is it and I run evolution it appears in the top left > > corner exactly where xchat is covering it up. Why would metacity place > > it there ? There is already a application residing there. The way I > > would implement this is in right click in the titlebar with a remember > > window position much like Fluxbox or KDE has. Then everytime you start > > the app it appears right where you saved it at. > > This is the thing, though-- I understand you want to be able to click > something saying "remember window position", but I still don't know > what "remember window position" might mean across sessions. Sure, > Metacity can remember where the window is until you log out, but > that's not what you want. You're asking for the window to come back > after you log out, log in, and then re-launch xchat or evolution. But > then we have to consider how Metacity can recognise that the new > window is the same one as before. > > But if fluxbox or kwin has an option which does exactly this, perhaps > it's worth looking at that and seeing how they do it. > > Thomas > I can try to help out if you need something drop me a line, thanks again. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org
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