Re: FVWM: A window positioning question

From: Phil Stracchino <alaric_at_caerllewys.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:43:43 -0500

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:10:29PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2004 10:07:51 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >
> > First of all, sorry if I've missed something in the documentation
> > explaining how to do this, but I'm not quite certain what I should be
> > looking for.
> >
> > Is there any way in fvwm2 that I can set things up such that a specific
> > window uses SmartPlacement if there is sufficient clear space available
> > on the desktop, but if it cannot be placed without overlapping another
> > window, then it is placed at a specified position (possibly its own
> > requested geometry)?
> >
> > Can anyone suggest ways of accomplishing this?
>
> There is no currently way to do this. You may try TileCascadePlacement
> and TileManualPlacement, these are close to what you want. The first
> works pretty well.

Thanks, Mikhail. I'll take a look at those.


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