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Title: fvwm(2) positioning new windows

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fvwm(2) positioning new windows

You may adapt the GUI of fvwm(2) to your liking:

You may tell the windowmanager how to behave when he opens up a new window. These are called style options. There are different methods on how to arrange windows:

 Style   [Window name]   [WindowPlacement]

Here Window name is a synonym for the program that should run in this window; e.g. an xterm Dabei steht Fenstername für das in dem zu erzeugenden Fenster zu startende Programm, zum Beispiel xterm. WindowPlacement defines the style,. The window name commonly is the name of the program. If this setting should apply to every window use an asteris instead of the window name. Even patterns are allowed as the following examples show: "*lock" sets the setting for clock, and xlock.

For making sure that styles are not overwritten (the sequence of the entries is important) the more specific entries should go to the bottom.

The default S.u.S.E. configuration is set to: Style "*" SmartPlacement, ActivePlacemen

The windowmanager tries to find an empty space and will place the window in this area. If there is no free space available you will be asked to select a place.

Here an example. If you would like all xterms to use RandomPlacement you may try the following piece of code: Style "xterm" RandomPlacement

PlacementStyle may be any of:

RandomPlacement, SmartPlacement, StubbornPlacement, ActivePlacement

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Keywords: FVWM, FVWM2, WINDOWMANAGER, X SERVER, POSITION, STYLE, WINDOW

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Categories: Window Manager

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