Re: GNOME and geometry specifications

["Spud" <spud has a godcomplex com>]

    I have never used fvwm2, and I run enlightenment. I know that in
Enlightenment, one can click the title bar of a window and there are about
10 diff. things to tell the WM to remember about windows position, such as
all attributes, size, position, etc...


>howdy.
>
>i was wondering if there's some reason why almost no gnome applications
>support a command-line geometry specification?  the only one i know of that
>does is gnome-terminal, and it appears that only the size hints are
followed;
>the position hints are ignored.
>
>i realize that most (all?) gnome-aware applications record at least some of
>their geometry information so that when they are restarted by
gnome-session,
>they show up where you left them, but it's pretty annoying to have to
manually
>place all windows when first starting them.
>
>i use fvwm2, which is not a gnome-aware window manager, but i don't think
this
>(IMO) problem is resolved by using a gnome-aware wm.
>
>one of the biggest problems i have with this is that even those
applications
>that do record their positional geometry for restarting purposes always
record
>it based on their physical position on the screen.  this is a problem when
you
>use a virtual window manager like fvwm2, because the virtual positions are
>often something like +1824+1209, but in my case gnome applications end up
>recording their position as +224+9 (center window in a 3x3 grid of
1600x1200
>virtual desktops).
>
>is there some simple geometry handling mechanism that i'm overlooking?
>command line -geometry exists in even the most basic non-gnome X
applications.
>
>thanks,
>jim
>
>+ Jim Stewart
>| jim@fweep.com
>+ http://www.fweep.com/
>
>
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