On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:05:54PM +0100 or thereabouts, Daniel Pörsch wrote: > Kai Weber wrote: > > Maybe your application remembers it's last position or opens itself > >centered. > > That's the most annoying thing, because metacity seems to override the > app-hint and places it centered, if it is the first window. > > You can try this with Firefox ... What a fascinating thread. I wonder whether the perceived "no, it's starting in the middle", "no, top-left!" is anything to do with the size of screens? I think metacity tries to place windows in specific places if there is room: ie, if it doesn't overlap anything. If there is nowhere suitable, then it starts filling up the screen with overlapping windows, starting from the top-left. If I open a succession of gnome-terminals. I end up with the first four clustered next to each other in a square, but then others start appearing in the top-left corner of the screen. But I have a 1280 x 1024 screen where you can fit four gnome-terminal windows on without their overlapping. I don't think windows appear in the same order on the 800x600 screen (it was cheap, okay? :)) Mozilla windows are a completely separate matter. They have always appeared to show up in the top-left, even if there is space for them elsewhere. I have no idea why. Thinking about it, I have even less idea... Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
