On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:09:02 -0400, Francis Gerund wrote:
Could someone please tell me if there are any user accessible settings to control placement of appication program windows
I don't know, but what ever WM/DE you're using, you could start apps by a wrapper. Scripts using wmctrl and xdotool might help you to get what you want and you then could switch WMs and DEs whenever you want ;). OTOH reading and writing x and y positioning with those tools is fishy on my install.
Thanks for the reply. The direct problem I was having seems to be not caused after all by window positioning, but by Gnome 3 apparently detecting a non-existent secondary display. I am working on that now, and posted another email on that topic. Very strange though, that only the window(s) for gnome-disk-utility seem to be affected. Also, sorry for neglecting to say that I was using Gnome 3 Desktop Environment on Arch 64-bit. (Composing email on Gmail's asinine built-in editor gives me fits - the editor jumps around at unpredictable intervals, adding and deleting bits of text in random spots).