window position with default window manager

[Elvin Peterson]

--- "Earle F. Philhower, III" wrote:

> AGO wrote...
> > Subject: Re: window position with default window
> manager
> > From: Alexander Gottwald
> <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
> > > It is possible to make all windows appear at the
> top
> > > left corner of the screen?  I have looked at the
> > > command line options and found nothing
> appropriate.  I
> > > am using the -multiwindow option.
> > Afaik the internal windowmanager has no option to
> configure placing the
> > windows.
> 
> Most(all?) X apps have a "-geometry" command line
> option, the
> MWM does obey an initial position specified there
> IIRC...

I had forgotten all about it, as I hadn't used that
option for a long time.

emacs -geometry +0+0 

does the trick.  Isn't there an option for setting
this in the Xdefaults file for all apps?

Thanks for the help!


		
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