Default window placement/positioning

Bug #46381 reported by loftx
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metacity (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Since the smart-window placement/positioning was introduced, any windows where the placement isn't set by the application are put in a large enough empty space. If there is no space large enough for the window, windows are positioned in the top-left corner and stacked diagonally so title bars are visisble on multiple windows.

I have a large screen, and would like the option for windows satisfying these conditions to be placed in the centre of the screen as I find myself continually dragging the windows back to the centre.

Example:
Open firefox (or a similar application which takes up most of the screen) - It is opened in the location stored by firefox.
Open another firefox window - It is opened in the top-left of the screen forcing the user to drag it back to their preferred position where the first window opened.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. That feature request has been rejected upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151818. Doing the same for that task since we don't want to divert from upstream on that. Feel free to argue upstream though

Changed in metacity:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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