Is there a way to specify where on the screen windows open in KDE2? I don't like windows placed right on the edge of the screen, and it aggravates me to have to drag the window in from the edge a couple of centimeters every time I open a new one. I have searched my system for a config file I might edit, as well as looking on the KDE web site. I even went back to my old SuSE 5.3 manual since I thought I remembered something about how to do what I want in chapter 14 (X window system) or 15 (window managers), but couldn't find anything there either. Thanks in advance. George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3, kernel 2.4.16 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:25, George H. Griffin wrote:
Is there a way to specify where on the screen windows open in KDE2? I don't like windows placed right on the edge of the screen, and it aggravates me to have to drag the window in from the edge a couple of centimeters every time I open a new one. I have searched my system for a config file I might edit, as well as looking on the KDE web site. I even went back to my old SuSE 5.3 manual since I thought I remembered something about how to do what I want in chapter 14 (X window system) or 15 (window managers), but couldn't find anything there either.
Thanks in advance.
George
I believe what you are looking for is in the Control Center under Window Behavior. -- Bob Barish, CTO B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com Go confidently into your dreams 2:57pm up 1:28, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.18, 0.08
Thanks, I changed placement under the "advanced" tab to "random" which seems to be better. They don't open right on the edge of the screen now. What I'd really like is to be able to have them open a specified distance in from the edge of the screen. George bob barish wrote:
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:25, George H. Griffin wrote:
Is there a way to specify where on the screen windows open in KDE2? I don't like windows placed right on the edge of the screen, and it aggravates me to have to drag the window in from the edge a couple of centimeters every time I open a new one. I have searched my system for a config file I might edit, as well as looking on the KDE web site. I even went back to my old SuSE 5.3 manual since I thought I remembered something about how to do what I want in chapter 14 (X window system) or 15 (window managers), but couldn't find anything there either.
Thanks in advance.
George
I believe what you are looking for is in the Control Center under Window Behavior.
-- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3, kernel 2.4.16 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 15:10, George H. Griffin wrote:
Thanks, I changed placement under the "advanced" tab to "random" which seems to be better. They don't open right on the edge of the screen now. What I'd really like is to be able to have them open a specified distance in from the edge of the screen.
George
I am not sure how to get kde configured for having windows opening w/ a specified distance. One of the gurus will have to answer that one. I sure you can go to the actually configuration file and manually make the changes. Where is the million dollar question. So I am not sure where you would go to do that. I will be interested to find out what the others have to say on this. -- Bob Barish, CTO B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com Go confidently into your dreams 3:17pm up 1:48, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.09
* bob barish (bob@bmtsolutions.com) [020521 15:19]:
I am not sure how to get kde configured for having windows opening w/ a specified distance. One of the gurus will have to answer that one. I sure you can go to the actually configuration file and manually make the changes. Where is the million dollar question. So I am not sure where you would go to do that. I will be interested to find out what the others have to say on this.
See my previous post about this...this seems to be one more reason to use 'normal' X clients and not kde. -- -ckm
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:22 pm, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* bob barish (bob@bmtsolutions.com) [020521 15:19]:
I am not sure how to get kde configured for having windows opening w/ a specified distance. One of the gurus will have to answer that one. I sure you can go to the actually configuration file and manually make the changes. Where is the million dollar question. So I am not sure where you would go to do that. I will be interested to find out what the others have to say on this.
See my previous post about this...this seems to be one more reason to use 'normal' X clients and not kde.
Do I detect a hint of dislike for kde, Chris? Eddie
* Eddie Howson (eddie@cs.rhul.ac.uk) [020521 23:39]: ::On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:22 pm, Christopher Mahmood wrote: ::> * bob barish (bob@bmtsolutions.com) [020521 15:19]: ::> > I am not sure how to get kde configured for having windows opening w/ a ::> > specified distance. One of the gurus will have to answer that one. I sure ::> > you can go to the actually configuration file and manually make the ::> > changes. Where is the million dollar question. So I am not sure where ::> > you would go to do that. I will be interested to find out what the others ::> > have to say on this. ::> ::> See my previous post about this...this seems to be one more reason ::> to use 'normal' X clients and not kde. :: ::Do I detect a hint of dislike for kde, Chris? Chris has never been a fan of monolithic desktops. He went from Afterstep to Blackbox.. :) -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--
bob barish wrote:
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 15:10, George H. Griffin wrote:
I am not sure how to get kde configured for having windows opening w/ a specified distance. One of the gurus will have to answer that one. I sure you can go to the actually configuration file and manually make the changes. Where is the million dollar question. So I am not sure where you would go to do that. I will be interested to find out what the others have to say on this.
With KDE (version 2 at least), simply open the application, size and place the window where you want it, then go to the button in the uppermost left corner of the window. Click this, and then click on "store settings". For most applications, this should do it. From now on when you launch the application, the window will open to just the size and location you have previously set it for. Lawrence Sayre ------------------------------------------------------ My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a moral being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. Ayn Rand (in the appendix to 'Atlas Shrugged') ------------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 15:37, Lawrence Sayre wrote:
With KDE (version 2 at least), simply open the application, size and place the window where you want it, then go to the button in the uppermost left corner of the window. Click this, and then click on "store settings". For most applications, this should do it. From now on when you launch the application, the window will open to just the size and location you have previously set it for.
Lawrence Sayre
Interesting! Thanks Lawrence for the update to my brain cells. It works perfectly. This is the one thing I like about linux is the constant learning curve. It seems to more I learn the less I know. -- Bob Barish, CTO B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com Go confidently into your dreams 10:13pm up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.23, 0.17
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