Re: Metacity first window placing

[Daniel Pörsch <danielpoe gmx de>]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> I think metacity tries to place windows in specific places if there
> is room: ie, if it doesn't overlap anything. If there is nowhere
> suitable, then it starts filling up the screen with overlapping
> windows, starting from the top-left. 

You seem right, as far as I can see metacity puts windows in the center 
of the screen, if a second window of the same size wouldn't fit beside. 
If a window is small enough, that a second window of the same size would 
fit beside, it is placed so that the first and the (non-existing) second 
window would be centered (not exactly centered, the margin on top is a 
bit smaller than the margin at the bottom).

I have a 1400x1050 screen and my xterm (80x24 in chars x lines) gets 
placed at 132x132. It doesn't look that bad with 4 xterms 
(http://danielpoe.de/tmp/xterms-aside.png). But, sorry it makes absolut 
no sense to me!!!

Rgds,
Daniel