FVWM: placing a window on startup

[lee]

Hi,

is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to
appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky
at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems not to know the
-geometry option.

[Thomas Adam]

Post by lee
Hi,
is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to
appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky
at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems not to know the
-geometry option.

Use the PositionPlacement style option.

-- Thomas Adam

[Viktor Griph]

Post by lee
Hi,
is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to
appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky
at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems not to know the
-geometry option.

Have a look at the PositionPlacement style option.

/Viktor

[lee]

Post by Viktor Griph

Post by lee
Hi,
is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to
appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky
at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems not to know the
-geometry option.

Have a look at the PositionPlacement style option.

Thanks :)

This is wonderful, I didn't realise these placement options are actually
styles. That must be something I remember to be a global option from
fvwm1 ...

"PositionPlacement -0 +0" does what I want very elegantly :)


Another question:

Is it possible to make a "particular window" pop up under the pointer
upon pressing a key? "Particular window" means that I usually have an
rxvt open with a screen session. I don't want this window to be
sticky. When I move to another page of the desktop, I might want to move
this window to the page I'm on and place it on top of other windows
under the pointer by pressing a key.

Moving and raising the window is probably easy. The problem is how to
let fvwm know which window I want to move to the pointer. How could I
identify the window?

[Thomas Adam]

Hi,

Post by lee
Is it possible to make a "particular window" pop up under the pointer
upon pressing a key? "Particular window" means that I usually have an
rxvt open with a screen session. I don't want this window to be
sticky. When I move to another page of the desktop, I might want to move
this window to the page I'm on and place it on top of other windows
under the pointer by pressing a key.

For this, I would mark such a window as having a State. How you do
that is up to you but it could be a key-binding such as:

Key foo A A State n

And then in terms of your binding to move it, you would need to do:

Key ... Next (State n) Move .....

You could use a function if you wanted something more complicated.

-- Thomas Adam

[Vitezslav Cizek]

Hi,

Post by lee

Post by Viktor Griph

Post by lee
Hi,
is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to
appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky
at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems not to know the
-geometry option.

Have a look at the PositionPlacement style option.

Thanks :)
This is wonderful, I didn't realise these placement options are actually
styles. That must be something I remember to be a global option from
fvwm1 ...
"PositionPlacement -0 +0" does what I want very elegantly :)

You got this solved using Fvwm,
however conky has command line options -x and -y,
which allow you to specify the coordinates.

Vita