Opening windows at a default location

Kurt Wall kwall
Sun Nov 7 16:28:17 PST 2004


On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:13:41AM -0600, Michael Hipp took 21 lines to write:
> ACario wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I hope everything works fine for you all.
> >
> >I'd like to get newly opened windows positioned at a default location
> >that is not the top left corner of the screen. I know of the
> >"-geometry" option for some apps such as a Gnome-terminal, but I'm 
> >looking for an option that would work with Mozilla Thunderbird
> >or Firefox.
> 
> If you find an answer to this, I'd like to know of it also. It's one of 
> my gripes about Mozilla on Linux. Note that it does not do this on that 
> *other* platform.

This is often a function of the window manager. My WM, WindowMaker, 
handles this very nicely for Firefox.

Kurt
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