Re: FVWM: Window placement within defined area

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:14:40 +0100

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:35:10PM +0000, Andy Arbon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am curious whether it is possible to tell FVWM to position all new
> windows within a certain bounds, like you can do with icons in an iconbox.
>
> The reasoning is that I have one large desktop (1952x868) that covers
> two monitors (for reasons I've explained in other messages - I won't
> drag them up again ;) ), so AFAIK none of the normal
> StartsOnPage/Desk/Screen would work for me.
>
> I'd like to have all new windows pop up on the first monitor, which has
> the left most 1152x868 of the desktop. Is that possible?
>
> I realise it's probably not a common problem, so I won't be too
> surprised if FVWM doesn't do this.

>From your description I guess that you're using Xinerama. In this
case, use the config lines

  XineramaPrimaryScreen <any screen number you like counting from 0>
  Style * StartsOnScreen p

If you're not using Xinerama you may have the "Single Logical
Screen" extension or something similar. If your screens have the
same dimensions you can inform fvwm of their layout. For example,
if you have two screens side by side, use

  XineramaSlsSize 2x1
  XineramaSlsOn
  XineramaPrimaryScreen <any screen number>
  Style * StartsOnScreen p

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sun Mar 10 2002 - 03:31:31 GMT

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