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How to remember desktop position when closing+re-opening?

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:35 am
by pstein
When I close the PcMan window and re-open it (later) then the window is always shifted to the left border of the screen.

How can I tell PcMan to remember (beside its size) the last position on desktop (and use it at next start)?

Peter

Re: How to remember desktop position when closing+re-opening

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 6:19 pm
by drooly
it's the window manager's task to position windows.
some apps give hints as to where they want to be put; i'm not sure if pcmanfm uses that, but openbox (lxde's window manager) can override this.
it's a setting in ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml, <applications> section (depending on your distro, the file is elsewhere but definitely in ~/.config/...).
there's also a gui app called obapps, if memory serves.
see openbow wiki for details.
also this site has useful info about lxde in general.