New window placement - can it be customised?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:47:39PM +0100, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:15:54PM +0100, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >> > By default xfce always seems to create new windows in the middle of
> >> > the workspace, is there any way to change this?
> >> >
> >> > (I assume this is "smart placement" but I couldn't find anywhere to
> >> > change it)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Did you take a look in the window manager tweaks?
> >>
> > Yes.  I found under Placement the following:-
> >
> >    Minimum size of windows to trigger smart placement
> >
> > However I don't see how that addresses my question.  What I want to do
> > is change *where* smart placement tries to put a window.
> >
> > Without knowing what smart placement is trying to do there seems
> > little point in changing the size of window that it applies to!  :-)
> >
> 
> No, smart placement means that it tries to find an empty spot on your
> screen to put a window on. When it does not do smart placement, it
> puts the window in the middle of the screen. I do not believe you can
> change it so it will put it in another hardcoded position when not
> using smart placement.
> 
Ah!  :-)  I wish it told me that somewhere.  Thank you.

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Chris Green