Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!stan!ninja!toml
From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Positioning windows under TWM
Keywords: twm
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.200629.14886@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 90 20:06:29 GMT
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|> I want to position a window in a particular place, and my program does
|> this for every window manager I have tried except for twm, which always
|> makes the user position the window manually.  Is there a quick fix for this?

There are two types of hints to the window manager that can affect window
placement:  User Specified Position (USPosition) and Program specified
Position (PPosition).  Pre-R4 window managers mostly ignored PPosition
but the R4 twm has an of option to control how PPosition is handled.
Look at the variable UsePPosition in the twm man page.  USPosition should
ONLY be used if the user requested the window to be positioned at some
location.

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Tom LaStrange

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