Re: is there a way to change the starting position of the window

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 11/11/05, Yiannis <odysseus lost gmail com> wrote:
> is there a way to change the position of the window when starting up?
> In particular:
> 1. Is it possible to change it to a relative position... for example
> the top right corner? I am using glade to create the interface and
> libglade to load it....
> 2. Is it possible to "save" the positions of the windows and use them
> in the next startup.

On window popdown I read out the final position and size with:

        iimage->window_width = GTK_WIDGET( iv )->allocation.width;
        iimage->window_height = GTK_WIDGET( iv )->allocation.height;
        gdk_window_get_root_origin(
                gtk_widget_get_toplevel( GTK_WIDGET( iv ) )->window,
                &iimage->window_x, &iimage->window_y );

And on the next create, I restore the old position and size with:

                GdkScreen *screen = gtk_widget_get_screen( GTK_WIDGET( iv ) );

                /* We need to clip x/y against the desktop size.
                 */
                int window_x = IM_CLIP( 0, iimage->window_x,
                        gdk_screen_get_width( screen ) - iimage->window_width );
                int window_y = IM_CLIP( 0, iimage->window_y,
                        gdk_screen_get_height( screen ) -
iimage->window_height );

                gtk_widget_set_uposition( GTK_WIDGET( iv ),
                        window_x, window_y );

                gtk_window_set_default_size( GTK_WINDOW( iv ),
                        IM_MIN( iimage->window_width,
                                gdk_screen_get_width( screen ) ),
                        IM_MIN( iimage->window_height,
                                gdk_screen_get_height( screen ) ) );

Seems to work OK on windows and linux. It breaks a bit with maximised
windows on win32 :-( but only slightly.

John