Re: [ gpsdrive ] Save window positions

["Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)" <gpsdrive@ostertag.name>]

On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:10, Guenther Meyer wrote:
> Am Sonntag 21 Januar 2007 01:09 schrieb David:
> > How hard would it be to save the positions of the windows in the
> > gpsdriverc file on exit and reload them on start up or just specify the
> > start postions on the command line along with the -x paramater.
> >
> > The command line thing might be a bit clumsy as we would probably need
> > an X,Y position for each of the three windows.
> >
> > I'm happy to work in this if someone can give me a point in the right
> > direction.
> >
> > Thoughts anyone?
> >
> > David
>
> you could use a tool like wmctrl and start gpsdrive with a script, that
> moves the windows to the desired positions after they are created.
>
> adding more command line options to gpsdrive is indeed not a very good
> idea. but adding an option in the settings, that says something like "save
> windows" and saves the geometry in the config file, would be a nice thing.

Well, at least for the main window changing to the default option named
 --geometry
would be great. And the other window positions could well be stored inside the 
gpsdriverc file.


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