Re: [ gpsdrive ] Save window positions

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

David wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> My in car screen runs best at 800 x 600 and I have realised that the
> best way to use gpsdrive at this resolution is by detaching the menu
> and the bottom information pannel with the -x command line option.
> 
> The problem is every time I start gpsdrive I need to re-position the
> windows so I can see the title bars of each window.  This way it is
> easy to swap between the three windows.  
> 
> 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?


your window manager may have some controls for this.

e.g. I use sawfish: "gnome-window-properties" opens the "sawfish-ui"
opens the Sawfish Configurator. There is a "matched windows" tab which
lets you set/save window placement/size by app name, etc.

In general it's not a wonderful idea for an app to override a WM's
placement decisions by default, but allowing the user to do
--geometry=WxH+X+Y from the command line might be nice.


Hamish
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