Hello, my tqw friends! Hope everyone is starting to settle in to the new year... I'm st0ked to message with ya'll thru the year. :P

I think I have a pretty basic-b**ch Linux question(s) today... but I figured I'd bug ya'll, none-the-less. L0L. I'm really getting my Arch install/setup pretty flipping dialed in perfect. Got Apple AirDrop [open-source, opendrop] working, most of my utilities, tools and setup is all here and running better than EVER on Ubuntu - I love it.

As I get down to my final everyday setup, theres some stuff I wanna do with windows and applications. Two things up for question today:

Can I permanently set WHERE a window opens, sits and 'lives'? Such as... my Discord and Element chat apps. They both run at startup, and I'd like to size them, set where they should always open and live - and bonus; lets minimize them at start, but have them land in those set areas when I click the menu icon...

2nd - its kinda the same, but... I just upgraded to the newest nightly build of Syncterm... I always installed 1.1stable, as I just thought it was... more stable - anyway, it has this neat feature where you can press Alt+Left/Right to step up/down the size of the window... BUT, it opens in maximized view most of the time... and isn't the 3rd click on that up/down scale where I want it... I want it to not open maximized, but in that full-screen (its actually windowed in reality, tho..) 4:3 mode thats like one less than full screen or zoomed in ever larger.

If this is confusing you; I want Syncterm to open in the window size and detail level that I choose, every time... and only THEN if I use its Alt+Left/Right command should it change to some other option.

:P I figure both of these are doable.. and I'll reply if I figure out the solution - but thought I'd pick my friends minds here first... w00t w00t.

PS - Hate me or not, I love gnome-boxes!!! Its nice. Yes, I wish I could set more OPTIONS... but it does 'just work' pretty smoothly if you don't NEED the detailed stuff. For my minimal Kali Linux/Windows needs on my laptop - its perfect. I have a server for the big/needy stuff.



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Can I permanently set WHERE a window opens, sits and 'lives'? Such as... my Discord and Element chat apps. They both run at startup, and I'd like to size them, set where they should always open and live - and bonus;
lets minimize them at start, but have them land in those set areas when
I click the menu icon...

First you will have to tell us what desktop environment your are running? If I had to guess I'd say KDE Plasma. If so, then for the first part (not the bonus question):

- run the app you want to place and size
- place and size it with the mouse as you normally would
- right-click the titlebar and choose More Actions->Configure Special Window Settings
- click Add Property, find Position and add it, click Add Property again and find Size and add that.
- click OK and Bob's your uncle.

Don't know about the bonus question but I bet it is in Configure Special Window Settings or Configure Special Application Settings

The SyncTerm issue sounds specific to SyncTerm.

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[On KDE Plasma]

- run the app you want to place and size
- place and size it with the mouse as you normally would
- right-click the titlebar and choose More Actions->Configure Special Window Settings
- click Add Property, find Position and add it, click Add Property again and find Size and add that.
- click OK and Bob's your uncle.

Yea, I used to use Plasma - and now that you say that I know exactly what yer talking about... I'm on Arch w/ GNOME so I think it'll be a little different, but you've stoked my brain a little on where to sniff around.

GNOME doesn't have that same menu when right clicking the title bar; but I bet its around here somewhere. Thx.

Don't know about the bonus question but I bet it is in Configure Special Window Settings or Configure Special Application Settings

Yea; I just gonna locate where GNOME allows this per application.



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On 09 Jan 2022, paulie420 said the following...

Yea, I used to use Plasma - and now that you say that I know exactly
what yer talking about... I'm on Arch w/ GNOME so I think it'll be a little different, but you've stoked my brain a little on where to sniff around.

GNOME doesn't have that same menu when right clicking the title bar; but
I bet its around here somewhere. Thx.

Don't know about the bonus question but I bet it is in Configure Spec Window Settings or Configure Special Application Settings

Yea; I just gonna locate where GNOME allows this per application.

Use i3 =)

I've never actually tried to force a window size/location when I used gnome desktop, and that was a good few years back since I stopped using a DTE, but I imagine there will be a config file in your ~/.config directory somewhere that might help, I would say that there's probably an application to assist you also, but would probably try and do it without installing more apps to do it, just for the bloat perspective.

Interested in how you solve it, if you do manage it with gnome, something to store in the old grey memory banks for future.

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