Public bug reported: Since the smart-window placement/positioning was introduced, any windows where the placement isn't set by the application are put in a large enough empty space. If there is no space large enough for the window, windows are positioned in the top-left corner and stacked diagonally so title bars are visisble on multiple windows.
I have a large screen, and would like the option for windows satisfying these conditions to be placed in the centre of the screen as I find myself continually dragging the windows back to the centre. Example: Open firefox (or a similar application which takes up most of the screen) - It is opened in the location stored by firefox. Open another firefox window - It is opened in the top-left of the screen forcing the user to drag it back to their preferred position where the first window opened. ** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- Default window placement/positioning https://launchpad.net/bugs/46381 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs