Re: Make applications remember their positions and sizes
On Friday 11 October 2002 02:28, Claudio Bley wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:22, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote:
> > I am tired of having to redimension abiword Xemacs and the like each
> > time I run them. I know I can specify the applications to start
> > maximized using Window Maker but that is not enough flexible for me.
> > I used to modify the .XResources, but I was wondering if there was some
> > kind of easier way built-in Gnome, so that these settings get
> > automatically kept for each application.
> >
> > Is there something like that available?
>
> No, not that I know of. Either the application itself (e.g. gkrellm has
> an option to remember its position) or the window manager (sawfish <=
> 1.0.1 has a history function) should provide this ability.
To be correct it is the session manager's job which as defined in the ICCCM
does not have to the window manager. As I understand it both GNOME and KDE
offer session managers in their desktop environments.
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