That has been reported upstream as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748072
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #748072 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748072 ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Also affects: nautilus via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748072 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Summary changed: - nautilus ignores the --geometry= positions unless sudo is used + nautilus ignores the --geometry= positions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543345 Title: nautilus ignores the --geometry= positions Status in Nautilus: Unknown Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: In Ubuntu 14.04, patched to Feb 7, 2016, running nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.10 , starting nautilus from a terminal using the --geometry=800x300+200+100 will ignore the '+200+100' positioning part unless sudo is used, in which case, the positioning is correctly used. The size of 800 pixels wide and 300 pixels tall appears by eye to be correct for non-sudo and sudo invocations of nautilus, but the window position of 200 pixels down and 100 pixels right is ignored unless sudo in used for the invocation. Non-standard kernel in use: uname -a Linux tosi 4.2.3-040203-generic #201510030832 SMP Sat Oct 3 12:34:31 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1543345/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
