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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:35 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Patrick;
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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]
>
> > 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.
> That is true for me too.  If and only if, I am opening one application
> in a work space.  If you have read the response I wrote you earlier you
> will see that I am opening two applications in one work space.  In my
> case they are Evolution and Xchat.  As I pointed out the first
> application to open returns to its former position but subsequent
> programs open in the top left corner.
>
> On the other hand; if you can get two or three or more programs to open
> in their former position while I cannot; then you are saying I, Gnome
> and Evolution have a much bigger problem than was originally suspected.
>
> If you check the bug suggested by Matthew Barnes, you will see that
> there is not a way yet to tell Evolution to always resume at a fixed
> position.

Yes, you're right. I had missed the point about it being the first
application to open.

Oh well, yet another reason to stick with KDE :-)

poc