Re: FVWM: Positioning transient pager on screen

"David J. Weller-Fahy" <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:31:04 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <YB/[email protected]>
* Thomas Adam <[email protected]> [2021-02-06 21:51 -0500]:
>On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:54:50AM -0500, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
>> I have tried a number of things to move the window, but figured I'd
>> ask: what's the proper way to make a transient instance of FvwmPager
>> move to an x position of 70 pixels, and a y position of 0 (+70+0 in
>> geometry parlance)?
>
>There isn't one. The idea behind transient window is that they're dealt
>with there-and-then, hence why they start by the mouse pointer in this
>case. It's a feature, not a bug.

Well, shoot. :)

I have another way to do it that is less elegant (involving
non-transient windows and a 1-second timer to make the window shade),
and will do that.

Thanks for the confirmation, though!

Regards,
   -dave
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