On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:18:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > lostson wrote: > > Thanks Rahul for the info that is the one thing I would like in > > Metacity is a remember window position. Maybe someday. > > If it doesn't do what you want. go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org and file > bug reports. I'm happy to entertain suggestions as to how to remember window positions. People do occasionally ask for Metacity to make the same window appear in the same place it did last session, but then they never seem to follow up with an explanation as to what "the same" means. This isn't a facetious question: there is simply no good way to do this in an automated way at present. Clearly all windows opened by the same application aren't "the same" window, and presumably we can't use the titlebar text either, because you might start with a different document open in OpenOffice and still want it to be counted as "the same" window. We might use the resource name and class, and the role, which are provided in X for doing this sort of thing. But in practice they'd be fairly useless because none of the applications use them much. Devil's Pie was written precisely to fill this gap, and it requires you to specify the details of each window by hand. (And on top of it all, I like the idea of a lightweight window manager, and if we can offload some of the work onto Devil's Pie, so folk who want it get it, and folk who don't get a bit more memory, then that sounds like a good plan to me.) But if you have ideas about this or anything else, I would like to hear them. T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman little bird -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
