metacity behavior plugins ?

[Thomas Thurman]

2008/9/18 lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org>:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:30 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote:
>> there is simply no good way to do this in an
>> automated way at present.
>>
[...]
> I am mostly concerned with
> just the main window. For instance when i start Xchat it always starts
> in the upper left corner where I want it to be. I don't know the reason
> it does but it does. When say for instance I have xchat open on my
> desktop and that is it and I run evolution it appears in the top left
> corner exactly where xchat is covering it up. Why would metacity place
> it there ? There is already a application residing there. The way I
> would implement this is in right click in the titlebar with a remember
> window position much like Fluxbox or KDE has. Then everytime you start
> the app it appears right where you saved it at.

This is the thing, though-- I understand you want to be able to click
something saying "remember window position", but I still don't know
what "remember window position" might mean across sessions.  Sure,
Metacity can remember where the window is until you log out, but
that's not what you want.  You're asking for the window to come back
after you log out, log in, and then re-launch xchat or evolution.  But
then we have to consider how Metacity can recognise that the new
window is the same one as before.

But if fluxbox or kwin has an option which does exactly this, perhaps
it's worth looking at that and seeing how they do it.

Thomas