[ale] thunderbird

[Michael Trausch]

Yes, apps can request a position but the window manager policy is allowed to override. All of the nitty gritty details are part of the Freedesktop.org window manager protocol specifications under X11. Policy is defined arbitrarily on Weston but can be the same as X11 if the am so chooses. 

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> On May 30, 2015, at 7:05 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/29/2015 03:55 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>>>> so far, I have installed & tried LXDE, XFCE4, fvwm, and openbox.
>>>> Paul, Of those 4, only two are WM. The other 2 are DEs.
>>>> 
>>>> * WM
>>>> * DM
>>>> * DE
>>>> These are 3 different things.  The WM controls where new windows are placed.
>>> ok, so which are WM's ??
>> Did a little searching - seems newer WMs don't always allow control of placement
>> for application windows. openbox has a "smartplacement" policy for the config file.
>> 
>> My .fvwm2rc file has placement which looks like the ~/.Xresources format, so
>> there is hope that any X/Windows app should support it. I've noticed that
>> Mozilla programs DO NOT - perhaps due to their toolkit use. I dunno.
>> 
>> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO/cli.html
>> http://xwinman.org/resource.php
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> $ xterm -geometry 72x24-0-0
>>  Puts an xterm in the lower right-hand corner.
>> 
>> xterm -geometry 72x24+0+0
>>   Puts and xterm in the upper left-hand corner.
> I got a reply from mozilla forum.. they said to open a reply window,
> move it to where I want it, and close it. open a new one SHOULD open
> where I closed the last one.. Well, that WORKED in KDE, but NOT in MATE
> session.. so MATE is the issue, but after working in the KDE session for
> the night, I went screaming back to MATE, ahhhhh, feels better:) oh
> well, I can live with that annoyance I guess.
> 
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> Paul Cartwright
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