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Remembing window locations

Asked by marcus aurelius

Whenever firefox or any other application is started, the window is placed at the upper lefthand side of the screen, even when I move the windows around. Is there a way to save the last location that the application window was at so they don't start in the upper lefthand corner?

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GaryW (gnubyexample) said : 		#1

Hi, if you want common behaviour for window placement across all applications
then these three links might be of some help.

   https://blueprints.launchpad.net/metacity/+spec/center-window-shortcut

   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1444387

   http://chad.glendenin.com/metacity/

If you are not using Gnome/metacity then those links will not help at all.

The first link talks about having a keyboard shortcut to put the window
in middle of screen.

Is it a bug that window placement is not remembered in Gnome?
My limited reading is that the official position is that the application itself should
remember it's last placement. Whether this is ideal is a matter for debate.

No harm in filing a bug and seeing if you can drum up some support,
however it would need a few others to back the bug report
effort as previous attempts only got a "won't fix" response:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151818

For firefox in particular this non-Linux thread suggests that
having a misbehaving addon might trigger firefox to
change it's window placement behaviour:
  http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/135268-windows-wont-remember-firefox-window-size-position.html
  http://is.gd/eLsxa

Gary.

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