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Witling

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Saturday, April 21st 2007, 6:21pm

Open a Program Screen Position

I would like programs to open in the same position on the screen that the were in when I closed them. This does not happen. My programs always open in the upper left portion of the screen. Can this behavior be modified and if so, how?

I'm using KDE 3.5.5 under openSuSe 10.2. A similar question was posed at

KDE wont "remember" screen position

but never received any kind of response.

If you answer, please be aware that I'm new in these Linux parts. I'm trying to kick a bad habit.

kriko

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Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 4:25pm

Kde has the ability to apply specific settings to a specific window or application.

If you want such behaviour for e.g. konqueror, than open it, click on the application icon (top-left), and select advanced -> special window settings or application settings (depends if you want to apply certain settings to application and all it windows or only this window you see, you can even tweak more by looking at window tab). Select e.g. special application settings and then click geometry tab, select Position and choose remember.That way konqueror will always open where you left it. You can set also dozen of other things, feel free to experiment.
You can see full list of custom settings anytime by clicking on any application icon (again, top-left) and choose: configure window behaviour -> window-specific settings. Here you can arrange list of application (delete or modify).

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "kriko" (Apr 22nd 2007, 4:28pm)

Witling

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Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 5:35pm

Thank you, Kriko. This is the solution I needed.

I'm enjoying Linux and not missing that other operating system at all. But, as with all new undertakings, it's a little frustrating to know that there must be some simple way to do something and yet not be able to do it.

On the theory that everything is easy if someone else has to do it, may I recommend that you submit this information to be included in the hints screen that pops up when one starts KDE -- unless it has been turned off. Since I know next to nothing about Linux or KDE, I still leave the KDE hints on to be displayed when I start Linux.

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Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 5:40pm

Maybe it is already contained in hints (you mean startup tips dialog?). However kde4 it is on its way and it may change this things - I think there will be one kde 3.5.x release more - 3.5.7, so it's kinda late for changes - will not make it in. But you can freely report to bugs.kde.org, they might incude it.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "kriko" (Apr 22nd 2007, 5:41pm)