start location for windows

[Bob Marcan]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:32 +0100
Ron Yorston <rmy at tigress.co.uk> wrote:

> Steven Stern wrote:
> >When I start a new program in Gnome, it positions the new window at the
> >top left of the screen. Is there a way to tell it to use some other
> >location (e.g., center)?
> 
> The Gnome window manager, metacity, positions windows automatically and
> offers no control.  I maintain a patch to metacity that allows windows
> to be positioned manually:
> 
>    http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/metacity/index.html
> 
> RPMs for Fedora and RHEL are available there.
> 
> Ron
> 

Where are the times when we can specify the X11 -geometry ;-(
Linux, great operating system with the more and more windoze like gui
crap.

Bob