How do I position a program on the screen?

xmrkite · 01-11-2007, 10:35 AM

Hello, i want to open a program and do two things with it...

1. Keep it on top of all other programs even when you open another program

2. Position where is appears, for example, in the center of the screen.

Anyone know how to do this?

-Thanks

PatrickNew · 01-11-2007, 10:39 AM

It depends on the window manager you are using. Are you using Gnome, KDE, fluxbox, XFCE or something else?

xmrkite · 01-11-2007, 11:15 AM

Sorry, I'm using Fluxbox

PatrickNew · 01-11-2007, 12:14 PM

Recent Fluxboxes have the cool remember feature. Essentially, open the program once, put it where you want it to open, and click the box in the up left of every window. Then select Remember -> Position. I'm not sure, but I think that there's a similar "keep on top option".

asommer · 01-11-2007, 12:16 PM

Yep...it should be on the top left I think. Something like "sticky" I believe.

xmrkite · 01-11-2007, 12:26 PM

Hello, maybe i was not clear enough. I want to do this when i open a program from the command line if possible.

PatrickNew · 01-11-2007, 03:16 PM

Ah, you mean like, are there command line args to pass to specify geometry, etc? I don't know, but I'll research and get back to you.

xmrkite · 01-11-2007, 03:28 PM

that is exactly what i mean. I want to do something like this: "xmms -geom 300x200" from the command line and have it open xmms 300 pixels from the left and 200 from the top.

PatrickNew · 01-11-2007, 03:51 PM

There is a fluxbox command "MoveTo x y" where x and y are in pixels, but I'm not sure how you would implement that automatically. It operates on the currently focused window, so maybe you would write a wrapper script that would run that immediately after starting the program so that it will be focused.

xmrkite · 01-11-2007, 11:58 PM

For some reason in dsl linux, that command didn't work. Any other ideas?

PatrickNew · 01-12-2007, 07:42 AM

how are you entering it? It is a fluxbox command, not a CLI program.

xmrkite · 01-15-2007, 11:35 AM

I entered it from bash, how else can i enter it?

PatrickNew · 01-15-2007, 11:57 AM

In the fluxbox menu portion of your right click menu there's a Fluxbox Command entry that gives you something that looks like fbrun. I think there's a cli way, but I don't know it.