Screen positioning

[Len Lawrence]

Another really newbie question:

Is there any way to position a shoes application on the screen?  I am 
trying to get the window manager under GNOME to place a small text 
display at the left or topleft of the screen.  In ruby/rubytk it is a 
simple matter of creating a root window and specifying the window 
manager parameters;

e.g.     root = TkRoot.new { title title }
        root.geometry( "+10+20" )

Shoes does not recognize the standard X Window geometry options at the 
command line.


Len