On 9 Oct 2000, Geekjuice.com wrote:
> i've been wondering lately if there's a way to change the distance that an
> application is displayed from the edge of the screen...
>
> for instance... if i had netscape open, and i move it to the top left corner,
> very top left. and i close it, and open it again. it will remain the same
> size, but it will always spawn about 30 pixels from the top, and left edges of
> my screen. same with any other application. also, when i have an app
> maximized, and i start it again, it will be nearly full size, but will have
> been shrunk to fit a certain distance from the edge.
>
> this is kinda annoying, is there a way to change it?
First off, what version of blackbox are you running? Most importantly,
what Window Placement model are you using? I have noticed that cascade
placement tends to start things well offset from the upper left hand
corner, much more so than smart placement. Unfortunately, netscape is
broken in this regard on its own, it defaults to opening at +10+10 rather
than where the window manager would like, which is annoying.
For a general solution, I would see if smart placement improves your
fortunes if you are not currently using it. You can also run apps with
the -geometry option (this works particulary well for netscape, I run mine
as netscape -geometry 1000x725 so it takes up a lot of my 1024x768 screen
on start accounting for the 10x10 default offset)
If you are getting this kind of behavior for all apps, with smart
placement, under 0.61.1, thats a different matter.
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