Re: Make applications remember their positions and sizes
[sorry, for replying so late]
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 16:44, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 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.
I think this depends on what you want. A session managers job (as I
understood it) is to remember several things on demand (i.e. when you
save your session) *across* sessions in order to provide these saved
values to the applications.
But what I (and I assumed the OP also) wanted was to remember such
attributes (automatically) during a session, ie. resizing an app,
closing it and re-opening it again and have it the same size or
position.
Note, I may be completely wrong.
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