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From: tsang@ISI.COM (Kam C. Tsang)
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Subject: dialog placement
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Date: 13 Jun 91 22:29:09 GMT
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> I'm trying to write a multi-window application. I'm using a dialog 
> shell to create the second window but I'm having a problem positioning
> the dialog shell on the screen. The dialog shell is a child of the
> toplevel but it will not take x and y coordinates on the screen.
> 
> Does anyone know how to position a dialog on the screen?
> Do I have to use two toplevels?

The problem is likely to be in your window manager.  Xt translates x
and y coordinates in your resource settings to window manager *hints*
on your dialog shell, which means that your window manager does not
have to even pay attention to it.  If you use mwm, try
Mwm*clientAutoPlace: False in your .Xdefaults.  If you use tvtwm, try
not to have the line RandomPlacement in your .tvtwmrc, although this
one I'm not sure about.

-kam