Re: Remember Window Position



On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:12 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:25:48PM +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
> >Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> writes:
> >
> >> I think that sort of feature belongs in the window manager rather
> >> than in the individual applications.
> >
> >Please, someone speak up. This is non-sense and it directly conflicts
> >with the gnome philosophy;). 
> 
> Please, point me to the Gnome philosophy on this.
> 
> I searched a bit and found the following:

I think anybody who really cares about window placement would rather a
window-matching utility than to fix every single program. There's a
lovely window-matching utility for Metacity called Devil's Pie.

http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

(Disclaimer: I haven't read the GNOME philosophy. I'm just suggesting a
simple fix to the original poster's dilemma.)

-- 
Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>

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