Re: [Evolution] Evolution -g +x+y ??

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:12 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Patrick;
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:08 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi Mathew;
> > > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 10:25 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:43 -0400, William Case wrote:
> [snip]
> > > If there is no other way, should I make this a feature request?
> >
> > I always have Evo in the same position without doing anything special.
> > Maybe it depends on your desktop. I use KDE but I don't recall doing
> > anything in particular to set it up.
> The problem is I am using gnome.  In gnome, an application remembers its
> previous position as long as it is the first application on the screen.
> Subsequently opened applications always position themselves in the upper
> left corner.  
>
> I have set aside workspace 3 for email & chat.  That means I always have
> two applications open in that workspace; Evolution and Xchat.  Evolution
> is sized to cover 80% of the width of the screen and about 75% of the
> height of the screen from the top down.  Xchat, which allows me to
> configure its position, fills the bottom 25% and is equal in width to
> Evolution.  For the way I like to work, the above arrangement serves me
> well; nice, neat, easy to read.
>
> I have tried screwing around with the session manager to change the
> order in which Evolution and Xchat load.  That only works for a short
> while then something screws up -- I lose my session -- usually my fault,
> but that is irrelevant to my question.

Bill, just for the hell of it, I tried it under Gnome (this is Fedora 9
as you probably know :-). I positioned and sized the Evo window as I
like it, logged out of Gnome and back in again, fired up Evo and there
it was in same position and size as I left it. I didn't play with extra
workspaces, not did I explicitly save the desktop configuration, and
note that I'm not auto-starting Evo (I like to keep the number of
autostart apps to a minimum). Also, I use my own button which just
executes Evo, rather than the builtin one which runs something called
launchmail, but I can't see that making a difference.

Cheers

poc