klaus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have troubles with thunderbird (class thunderbird-default) always
> appearing in the middle of the screen, even if my placement policy would
> put it on the right side.
>
> I tried now any combination of !UseUSPosition, !UsePPosition,
> FixedPPosition but without any success.
Interesting. Some time ago (a year or three?), my browsers stopped
being placed in the proper desktop page on fvwm startup. I've tried
debugging it in a half-hearted way, but it's fairly easy to move them
correctly, so I've never reported it.
I use these lines to place windows in my desktops:
Style "*pgf*" StartsOnPage 0,SkipMapping
Style "*Chrome*" StartsOnPage 1,SkipMapping
Style "*Chromium*" StartsOnPage 1,SkipMapping
Style "*Google*" StartsOnPage 1,SkipMapping
Style "*Firefox*" StartsOnPage 1,SkipMapping
Style "*jdh*" StartsOnPage 2,SkipMapping
"pgf" and "jdh" are for mate-terminal programs, which have set their
window labels with names containing those substrings. The other
names are all intended to match any of the browsers I run.
The mate-terminals always start on their correct desktops (0 or 2),
but Chrome (or Firefox, or Chromium...) always starts on desktop page 0.
(This includes after a "relaunch" of chrome, when I ask it to restart
itself because it has detected a newer version has been installed.)
I've never tried any other matching method.
If I had to guess, I'd suspect that the problem lies in my config,
which has very ancient roots. I've been running fvwm for at least
20 years -- my config may contain some old incompatibility.
I'll forward my config to Thomas.
paul
>
> I also first had the style "Style thunderbird* !Use..." but tried also
> with the full class name in case the matching algorithms in fvwm is
> unable to match the window.
>
> This is really annoying. Has anybody an idea how to prevent that damn
> thunderbird from setting its own position.
>
> It might be the same, Psi does always start on its position but every
> start it is moved according the high and wide of the top and left
> border. It seems that the application is detecting the position wrongly.
>
> Regards
> Klaus
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