Hi Cameron; On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 10:28 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 22Dec2006 16:02, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | Who or what is responsible for positioning newly opened windows in > | Fedora 6 and Gnome 2.16? Is it Fedora, Xorg, Gnome, MetaCity, or the > | application. > Well, you answered my question. Positioning for MetaCity is not a bug. For Fedora it might be in that positioning for Window Manager strikes mu as an essential service. It it isn't provided Fedora Core should look to installing with a new manager. > Metacity - it is the window manager. > > Firstly, its behaviour can be adjusted to suit your desires (like all > things: up to a point). > > Secondly, if you don't like what it can be told to do, you can run any > of several other window managers. > > "man metacity" (you _did_ try that, didn't you, since you knew to ask > about metacity) says: > > CONFIGURATION > metacity configuration can be found under Preferences->Windows and > Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts on the menu-panel. Advanced configura- > tion can be achieved directly through gconf editing (gconf-editor or > gconftool-2). > I have checked MetaCity three ways to Sunday. None of the above mentioned configuration tools (all actually different versions of the same backend) deals with window positioning > I don't run metacity; I run FVWM, my other runs icewm. Metacity is very > simple but not amazingly flexible. FVWM is extremely flexible. There are othe > window managers available in between. Several are mentioned here: > > http://freshmeat.net/browse/56/ > Thanks for the site. Hadn't seen the /browse/56/ location before. > Experiment. I will. > > | [... various desires ...] > > Sounds like you need to move to a window manager that offers more > control. > Is there any big cost or loss in efficiency by using FVWM or icewm? > Cheers, -- Regards Bill
