RE: Window size and position

[Juergen Dankoweit <Juergen Dankoweit T-Online de>]

Am Samstag, den 23.04.2005, 11:05 -0400 schrieb Freddie Unpenstein:
> > > > I'm currently coding a small application. I want the main
> > > > window to remember its size and position every time it is
> > > > started.
>
> > > I believe that's the job of the window manager...
> > > That's why you can set a couple different names for your window.
>
> > I believed this, too. But it isn't done by the window-manager.
>
> What window manager are you using?  Mine saves window positions just fine.  Actually, it does it a little 
> too well sometimes...  I have a very small GTK+ application I wrote that pops up a small window with one 
> checkbox and its associated label (there's also a fairly long tooltip attached to it).  But basically the 
> window that pops up is about four centimeters long, by about one and a half high, and always pops up 
> exactly where I left it last.  And there's no code anywhere to set the location of the window.

I'm using Metacity the standard window manager on FreeBSD-Gnome-Systems.

> > In my applications I use this code:
>
> If you're going to do that, make it optional, and only restore its position manually if the user has chosen 
> to do so.  Some users may even have their window manager set to purposely choose a new location for each 
> window every time, based on where the other windows on the screen are located.  There will be people who 
> are happy to let their window manager decide where to place the window each time they start your program (I 
> only let it decide for programs it hasn't seen).

Is there a GTK-function which tells me, whether the window manager saves
the window position? If so, I will change my code immediately.

Regards

JÃrgen