The docs say: clutter_actor_set_position() Sets the actor's fixed position in pixels relative to any parent actor. If a layout manager is in use, this position will override the layout manager and force a fixed position. But this doesn't seem to have any effects on actors inside a BoxLayout. Grepping for fixed_position_set only finds occurrences in clutter-bin-layout.c. Here's an example: https://gist.github.com/vindolin/11031245 Thanks Thomas |