[kde-linux] Window placement

[Ron Johnson]

On Monday December 17 2007 06:41:25 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 December 2007 11:42:09 Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Mon December 17 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > In my case it's always in the top left-hand corner.
> > >  Somewhere in kcontrol there is a setting for remembering
> > > the position of windows. Perhaps that's where the problem
> > > is?
> >
> > in my case, I usually open up 2 konsole windows when I log
> > in, the first opens up in the upper left corner, the 2nd in
> > the upper right corner. I always pull them down to the bottom
> > of my screen, and I wish they would reopen there, but they
> > don't.
>
> OK, the place to experiment seems to be kcontrol > Desktop >
> Window Behavior > Moving > Placement.  I set that to centered,
> and a new message window did open in the centre.  I've shanged
> it back, as centered opening is far more likely to end up
> behind something else and leave me hunting for it.  There is

Many thanks.  Because "Centered" puts all KMail Compose windows 
directly in the center of the screen, I set it to Random.

> already a problem with dialogue boxes opening behind other
> windows.  I haven't found the cure for that yet, but since it
> hasn't been so in every release, I assume that there is one.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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