Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

Stephen Dennison <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <CAD_jPZmnb8C-U3dWEFgmU1tKwUBwzTYQ6=TxNpDLiaCXUd3dOA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Glenn Golden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Version info:
>
>     fvwm 2.6.7 compiled on Nov 30 2016 at 13:19:18 with support for:
>     ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, SVG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama,
>     XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS
>
>
> Glenn Golden <[email protected]> [2018-07-13 16:45:36 -0600]:
>> "They kill, they maim, and they call information for numbers they could
>>  easily look up in the phone book."
>>
>>       - Woody Allen, 'What's up Tiger Lily?',  1966
>>
>> --
>>
>> Here is a simple sounding question that probably been answered many times, but
>> after googling and wikiing awhile, still haven't found quite what I'm after.
>>
>> When iconifying a window, how to force the icon to exactly the same screen
>> position it occupied the last time it was iconified?
>>
>> I don't use any icon manager or icon organization scheme, and don't want to.
>>
>> Typical example:
>>
>>   1. Start xv, do "something" [see below]
>>   2. Iconify xv. It iconifies to a position I don't like, call it A
>>   3. Move the icon to position I do like, call it B
>>   4. Later, click the icon to open xv and do another thing.
>>   5. Iconify xv. It returns to A, not B.
>>
>> It seems the above behavior is also influenced by what the "something" in
>> Step #1 is.  If "something" is nothing at all -- i.e. just start xv and
>> immediately iconify it and reposition the icon to B -- then opening xv in
>> Step 4 and re-iconifying it returns the icon to B not A.  But if "something"
>> is (say) doing a screen capture or opening the image editor, then iconifying
>> after that returns the icon to position A.
>>
>> What's going on with this? Can the icon position be forced?
>

I was unable to find a copy of xv to test it, but everything else I
iconify honors the new position.  Maybe xv is doing something odd?
Have you tried specifying something like
Style xv NoUseIconPosition ?
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