Hi; On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:57 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
