On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:15:50AM +0000, AG wrote: > How does one set it up so that new windows open on, say, the bottom > right hand corner of the screen rather than the (default?) current > top left? I don't know the answer, but I think I at least understand the question and why the previous two answers aren't appropriate. I'll therefore attempt to translate the question so someone might be able to answer it... So this question is about window placement options under the particular window manager you are running in GNOME under Debian Squeeze (presumably metacity?). When you press a launcher to open an application (so, not using the -geometry flag -- although as a hack you could customise the launcher to supply one, it's not an ideal solution) the window manager decides where to place the window. I believe the current behaviour is that it will either tile the window so that it doesn't overlap with any other, or cascade it from the top left corner of the screen. You would like it to favour, say, the bottom right corner instead of the top left. Now as far as I know, (a) the standard version of metacity doesn't have much in the way of window placement options, so you are going to have to change window managers, and (b) there probably aren't any that will give bottom-right as an option although I'm sure you can manage centred. imc _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
