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Always open a window at the same position in GNOME

For something I'm working on, it would be incredibly useful to open a program (qemu, specifically), and have the window by default reside at a set position (in this instance, on the second monitor in the upper left corner). I can do this with gnome-terminal, but that seems to be the only application to have a feature like this this.

Is it possible to do this independent of the application itself, so that it would work with any application?

(GNOME 3 on Fedora 15)

Yes, you can do this with the wmctrl command in a script. You can install wmctrl from the standard repositories (yum install wmctrl). For example:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

someprogram &

WINDOW=`/usr/bin/wmctrl -l |/bin/grep "someprogram" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}'`

COUNT=0

while [ "$WINDOW" == "" ]; do

  /bin/sleep .1

  WINDOW=`/usr/bin/wmctrl -l |/bin/grep "someprogram" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}'`

  if [ $((COUNT++)) -ge 100 ]; then exit ; fi

done

/usr/bin/wmctrl -i -r $WINDOW -e 0,0,0,1800,1020

This runs 'someprogram', waits up to 10 seconds for the window to appear, then sets its position to the top left and resizes the window to 1800x1020.

Update: If you have trouble finding wmctrl, you can get the latest Fedora 15 version from the Fedora build system (Koji) here.