On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:45:35PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:03 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been less than successful in moving the greeter window, and I've > > tried a lot. I already spend half a day with changing the background > > :( > > > > It looks like I need some gtk+ themeing magic to do that, could > > someone please help out? Thanks! > > No, theming has no say on window positions. The question is kinda hard > to answer without knowing how far you are willing to go... > > It is certainly possible to patch gdm to make the window appear > somewhere else. As things currently stand, the greeter insists on > centering it. > > You can use Alt+Left to move the window around at runtime (using the > standard metacity shortcut), but thats not very persistent. > > It is also possible to replace metacity with a different wm in the login > session, that lets you override window positions. gdm seems to support compiz instead of metacity. Would that give an configuration option for the position? I don't want to patch gdm, I was hoping it would be configurable like in past days. How do all these million themes manage to reposition it? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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