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Glenn Golden <g...@zplane.com> [2018-07-13 16:45:36 -0600]:
> "They kill, they maim, and they call information for numbers they could
> easily look up in the phone book."
>
> - Woody Allen, 'What's up Tiger Lily?', 1966
>
> --
>
> Here is a simple sounding question that probably been answered many times, but
> after googling and wikiing awhile, still haven't found quite what I'm after.
>
> When iconifying a window, how to force the icon to exactly the same screen
> position it occupied the last time it was iconified?
>
> I don't use any icon manager or icon organization scheme, and don't want to.
>
> Typical example:
>
> 1. Start xv, do "something" [see below]
> 2. Iconify xv. It iconifies to a position I don't like, call it A
> 3. Move the icon to position I do like, call it B
> 4. Later, click the icon to open xv and do another thing.
> 5. Iconify xv. It returns to A, not B.
>
> It seems the above behavior is also influenced by what the "something" in
> Step #1 is. If "something" is nothing at all -- i.e. just start xv and
> immediately iconify it and reposition the icon to B -- then opening xv in
> Step 4 and re-iconifying it returns the icon to B not A. But if "something"
> is (say) doing a screen capture or opening the image editor, then iconifying
> after that returns the icon to position A.
>
> What's going on with this? Can the icon position be forced?
