Re: window placement and wm startup

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dynip.com> writes:

> I've been using Jay Painter's (pseudo?) GNOME-compliant version of fvwm2
> for a while now, and I prefer active window placement.  However, upon
> the startup of a GNOME session I'd like the windows to place themselves
> so I don't have to babysit the startup.  Should/does GNOME use a wm hint
> to override active placement when it restarts apps at startup?  Such a
> hint is clearly used by e.g. Netscape.  And so sorry if "hint" is the
> wrong word.  If there is such a thing as this in place already, I wonder
> why it doesn't work with fvwm.

fvwm needs to be modified to session manage window locations.

It should remember window locations by session manager
ID, then when the session is restarted, it will know that
such windows should go back in their original locations
without user interaction.

Regards,
                                         Owen