New window placement - can it be customised?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:57:18AM +0000, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Alexander Toresson
> <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> No, not all.
> 
> Smart placement will always reduce the overlap of windows. If will
> calculate the place on screen where overlap with other windows in the
> smallest, so it will always succeed.
> 
> But that's quite an expensive algorithm, especially with smaller
> windows. So the setting is there to adjust the size where smart
> placement is to be avoided (this obviously depends on the system and
> the size of the screenm this is why it's configurable).
> 
> If smart placement is avoided, then two solutions: Either the window
> is placed in the middle of the screen or at mouse position. This is
> the goal of the other setting, place window at center or at mouse
> position, when smart placement is not used.
> 
So where do I find this "place window at center or at mouse position"
setting?

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Chris Green