Re: Positioning of new windows

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 4 Jan 2010, at 12:03, Ian Collier wrote:

> You would like it to favour, say, the bottom right corner instead of the
> top left.  Now as far as I know, (a) the standard version of metacity
> doesn't have much in the way of window placement options, so you are
> going to have to change window managers, and (b) there probably aren't
> any that will give bottom-right as an option although I'm sure you can
> manage centred.

You could also take a look at devilspie, which may or may not help metacity to do what you want.

<http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie/>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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