Aligning windows

[Andrew Conkling]

On 12/18/05, Futrzak <kris23 at poczta.fm> wrote:
> Hello!

Welcome to the list!

> I am strugling with a windows aligning problem. I  am opening a few vncviewer windows thru a script but the problem is that  they appear one over another which is not to comforrtable. I have to move each  window so I can see all of them (They are quite small). Is there any way to do  this automatically? I am using Xfce 4.2.3.2.

By default, xfwm4 aligns windows to reduce overlap.  However, it will
respect any requests of programs to open their windows at a specific
position.  So, if vncviewer is requesting positions for its windows
(likely), xfwm4 is simply accepting that.  To override that, you can
use a program such as devilspie, though I don't think you'll have a
very good time of figuring out how to make sure they're not all at the
same position; devilspie has a matching mechanism which I'm pretty
sure would simply match all the vncviewer windows.

HTH,
Andrew

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