New window placement - can it be customised?

[Alexander Toresson]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:14:39AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On ven, 2008-11-28 at 21:54 +0000, Chris G wrote:
>> > By default xfce always seems to create new windows in the middle of
>> > the workspace, is there any way to change this?
>>
>> In 4.6 you will be able to place the window under the mouse pointer.
>>
> Ah, that's why I can't find the setting that Olivier was talking about.
>
> I don't see this actually being much use though as, surely, one's
> mouse is almost certainly starting the application from a menu
> somewhere whose position is fixed.  The only case I can think of where
> this isn't true is running something from the command line.
>

Or binding something to a keyboard shortcut.

// Alexander