On Wed, 2005-26-01 at 14:43 +0100, Daniel PÃrsch wrote: > Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > 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. > > You seem right, as far as I can see metacity puts windows in the center > of the screen, if a second window of the same size wouldn't fit beside. > If a window is small enough, that a second window of the same size would > fit beside, it is placed so that the first and the (non-existing) second > window would be centered (not exactly centered, the margin on top is a > bit smaller than the margin at the bottom). > > I have a 1400x1050 screen and my xterm (80x24 in chars x lines) gets > placed at 132x132. It doesn't look that bad with 4 xterms > (http://danielpoe.de/tmp/xterms-aside.png). But, sorry it makes absolut > no sense to me!!! > > Rgds, > Daniel My screen is 1024x768, so my results are consistent with Telsa's hypothesis. Cheers, Ryan _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
