Re: Fixing where windows come up on RHEL 9
Thomas Cameron <[email protected]>
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On 1/22/24 13:50, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > Hi > > Unlike Wayland, X11 exposes global coordinates and the ICCCM allows X11 > applications to specify a location for their windows. And most X11 > applications (ab)use that feature. > > xfwm4, the window manager in xfce, applies the following heuristic for > placing windows when first mapped: > > 1. If the X11 client specified a location, use that. > 2. If not, either place the window where there is least overlap with > other window, or centered on screen, depending on the settings. > > xfwm4 will (optionally) save and restore the location of windows along > with the session (to restore the windows after a log out/log in), but it > will not remember the location all all window from all applications > after they get closed during the lifetime of a session (or even after > that applications get closed), but many X11 clients do that themselves > and try to restore the location of their windows when restarted. > > All that to say that the center window / smart placement only applies to > clients which do not specify a location for their windows. > > Cheers > Olivier Gotcha. Again, thanks for the education. -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Xfce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce http://www.xfce.org