Window Placement

[Ron Yorston]

Alan Cox wrote:
>People have tried different algorithms - including under the mouse. Early
>wm's often stuck the new window to the mouse so you placed it yourself. 
>Try a few window managers and see

Or try my patch to metacity which implements manual placement.  It's the
only way to go if you have multiple large displays.  RPMs for FC3 and FC4
are available.

   http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/metacity/index.html

There's another, unrelated patch for metacity (which I haven't tried) that
adds some different placement modes:

   http://home.uchicago.edu/~chad/metacity/

Ron