window position problem

[ciproxr]

tittle sais it all basicly, the nautilus window remembers where it was closed but firefox and the terminal and a whole bunch of other appz dont, isntead they open on the top left corner of the screen.

this is extremely irritating to the point where i dont even want to use ubuntu.

i know about the option in compiz to make windows open in the center but i hate that too.

is there a to force application to remember their position, any kind of third party software that can do that.

 

[Nothinman]

If the app doesn't remember it's position and the WM won't do it for you then you're out of luck. I personally run E16 and find it's smart window placement to be excellent and on top of that it has the ability to remember just about every aspect about a window.

 

[lousydood]

You can always use the -geometry option to any X11 application to place it on the screen. It's supposed to respect that. Something like

-geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+XPOS+YPOs

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If the app doesn't remember it's position and the WM won't do it for you then you're out of luck. I personally run E16 and find it's smart window placement to be excellent and on top of that it has the ability to remember just about every aspect about a window.

that was one of the things i definitely liked about E16. its very useful and seems like the kind of thing someone else would care to implement

 

[Nothinman]

Some WMs have implemented window memory, I believe KWM does for instance, but I'm not sure about metacity or compiz.