Re: New window placement (was: Re: Focus stealing prevention)



On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:28 -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> From: uws <uws xs4all nl>
> 
> > The case I was thinking of was:
> > 
> > - Start an application using a keyboard shortcut (I tend to use meta-[qwert]
> >   for menu, web browser, nautilus, run dialog and terminal)
> > - Hit the key combo again because you didn't see the terminal window popping
> >   up on my secondary monitor.
> > 
> > Now I end up with two terminals windows :(
> > 
> > So, the question is: What to do with new windows that don't have a parent
> > window? I think we have two choices:
> > 
> > 1. Same monitor as the mouse pointer
> > 2. Same monitor as the current activated window
> > 
> > I think option 2 is the best choice. If no window was active, metacity could
> > use option 1.
> > 
> 
> I would like choice 3 - include functionality equivalent to devilspie
> (or that program), which would permit more finely tuned window
> placement and behavior options.

If you want to use devilspie, why don't you use devilspie?

-- m


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Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>
http://www.gnome.org/~mariano

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